Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immoral." Anderson urged others "to follow in our footsteps," said he did not believe the majority of pilots "were in favor of the war" but preferred to remain silent. Barilla declared that he was "against war, all war," and that "the majority of Americans do not want to fight in Viet Nam." Their willing hosts clucked in satisfaction. One interviewer applauded them for choosing "a path of courage." Pravda praised "their brave decision, dictated by human conscience...
...drew fire, Grivas not only opened up on Ayios Theodoros with his vastly superior firepower but also commanded National Guardsmen to overrun the nearby village of Kophinou, whose main offense had been an attempt to replace its Greek name with a Turkish one. In the ensuing three-hour fight, 24 Turkish Cypriots were killed and nine wounded...
...still able to fight, there was no food. Worse, for the wounded fighting for their lives, there was no water. Next morning a relief battalion set out from Fire Support Base 16, less than two miles away. So dense is Dak To's bamboo jungle that it took more than ten hours to reach the embattled men. When the rescuers finally arrived, the survivors mobbed them for food and water. But the incoming battalion had taken only enough supplies for itself, and had consumed them all on the long march...
Last week, in an anniversary speech, Mobutu called the Congo "the rising star of Africa." With the mercenaries gone-they signed a pledge never again to fight in Africa-and the country on a more sensible course at least temporarily, the Congo finally has a chance. It is richer in natural resources-copper, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds-than almost any other African nation. With the opportunity to exploit them in peace, it could become a model of prosperity rather than of chaos...
...record on Vietnam, McNamara probably did more to illuminate publicly the complex strategic problems of the nuclear age than any American official since 1945. He demonstrated with compelling logic and eloquence the need for a strong "second-strike" nuclear capability--and noted, with accuracy, the need for forces to fight non-nuclear wars once it was clear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. could not longer use nuclear weapons against each other without risking mutual destruction...