Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers seemed to be in command: be spectacled, pockmarked Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, who wears a red beret, carries a swagger stick, and likes to be accompanied on military operations by his own photographer. Of South Viet Nam's 17 generals, Dinh is one of two who actually have troops at their disposal; the other, Brigadier General Nguyen Khanh, is located...
...attempt made more headlines than it did progress. Cantave's men took two tiny peasant villages, Meyac and Dérac. From there the invasion force pushed on to Fort Liberté. The garrison fired on the invaders, and the invaders fired back. After hours of sporadic gunplay, the invaders retreated into the hills, perhaps to fight another...
Died. Pedro Armendariz, 51, lusty Mexican he-man heavy in innumerable Hollywood westerns (Fort Apache), best remembered for his portrayal of a bedeviled fisherman in the 1948 Mexican masterpiece, The Pearl; by his own hand (.357 Magnum Colt revolver); in Los Angeles, Calif...
...open telephone line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty, sat in helicopters, ready to spin away to Tuscaloosa if they were needed...
...Shot Panther." When McNamara picked Korth to replace John Connally, who quit late in 1961 to run successfully for Governor of Texas, Korth already knew his way around the services. A Fort Worth banker, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Trans port Command during World War II, had served as Assistant Secretary of the Army in 1952-53. Foreseeing that McNamara would soon start shaking up the Navy, Korth jumped the gun on the Pentagon's civilian boss, appointed a study committee to reorganize the Navy's business side. Although some admirals, as Korth describes...