Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeopardy," said L.B.J., "and a struggling people had been brought almost to their knees by aggression-when William Westmoreland was called to urgent duty. His mission was to deny aggression its conquest. It was a mission simple enough to state. But to execute it, he had to fight the most complex war in American history. Now we are stirred by the hope of peace-a stable peace in which the people in Southeast Asia can live out their lives and develop their institutions as they will...
...expected to go along. The fury of the Communist Tet offensive has prodded South Vietnamese soldiers to fight with unaccustomed vigor, and the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, will voice guarded optimism when he briefs the two Presidents on the war's progress. A fact-finding team headed by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle G. Wheeler flew to Viet Nam last week to assess military prospects before the meeting...
...begin. On the other hand, the Biafrans, who walked out of the Kampala conference, insist on a cease-fire before talking further, since such an agreement would give them the status of a sovereign equal in any negotiations. Ojukwu himself admits that if the war turns into a guerrilla fight in the bush many of his army officers "are not tough enough for that." But the Biafrans apparently choose to die from starvation rather than reach an agreement with the federal government that might expose them to another slaughter...
...Puppet authorities issue identification cards to Highlanders with the purpose of levying taxes on them. Each I.D. cardholder pays 20 piasters. If five I.D. holders pay their taxes, how much money do puppet authorities collect? >Fifty youths at a school in North Viet Nam enlisted as volunteers to fight the American monsters in South Viet Nam during the morning. Forty more volunteered in the afternoon. On that day, how many youths volunteered? > Three antihelicopter teams meet to review their accomplishments. In the past year, the three teams shot down a total of 18 helicopters. Team One shot down six. Team...
...poverty will probably remain a mere holding action until many more affluent Americans feel the dirt, know the hurt and get mad enough to fight. Last week a group of 100 unimpoverished individuals paid $45 each in tuition to learn that motivation. The educational effort was the work, appropriately enough, of a Franciscan priest who sent businessmen, skilled laborers, housewives and church workers into the slums of one of the nation's otherwise most serenely sunny cities, Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience...