Word: footholds
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...324B Division, which the U.S. Marines had routed out of South Viet Nam in Oper ation Hastings in July. Back up to full strength, the division was once more on the move. Advance units had infiltrated back across the supposedly neutral de militarized zone, perhaps to secure a foothold from which Ho's invaders could launch a major offensive...
...news columns often promote the latest offerings of local merchants. Even so, the morning Mobile (Ala.) Register (circ. 46,905) and the afternoon Mobile Press (circ. 71,483) had understandable attractions for Publisher Sam Newhouse: the only dailies in town, they are moneymakers, and they offer one more foothold in the burgeoning Gulf Coast region where the Newhouse empire has been busily expanding.* So Sam "bought" Mobile...
Catholic missionaries made a fruitless attempt to acquire converts in Burma during the 16th century, but Christianity did not really gain a foothold until 1722, when two Barnabite priests from Italy started preaching in Ava and Pegu. The first Protestant missionaries landed in 1807. Six years later came the great American Baptist Adoniran Judson, "the Apostle of Burma." Born in Massachusetts, he spent 37 years in Burma-including 17 months in prison, part of the time in shackles, during the country's 1824-26 war with Britain. It was Judson who first translated the Bible into Burmese. Relatively unsuccessful...
...Free) today crackles with a prosperity, a pride of purpose, and a commitment to the fight for freedom that is Peking's despair and Washington's delight. The meadow inevitably has its dark corners, notably the less fecund northeast, where Red insurgency is struggling for a foothold. But the military oligarchy that rules Thailand in the King's name is confident the Communists will not succeed. So is the U.S. For Thailand is that rarity in the postwar world: a nation avowedly antiCommunist, unashamedly willing to go partners with the U.S. in attacking its problems...
Half a million indigenous peoples called Muruts, Dusuns, Brunsis, Bajaus and Kedayans live there, as do 100,000 Chinese who form the bulk of the commercial community. Western civilization, blown ashore by the winds of the British Empire a century ago, maintains a foothold on the coast. Only recently has the interior -- protected by mountainous jungle, leeches, more than 400 species of snake, wild pigs, monkeys, birds and butterflies -- begun to buckle under the bulldorers and books of the 20th century...