Word: gauntlet
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...Gauntlet Taken. What happens next in the war in Viet Nam depends in part on the Communists. Having been halted in midstride, the Viet Cong can drop back to the small-unit actions and the sabotage of Phase 2 adding perhaps massive terrorism in Saigon to try to bring down the government. It is the kind of war they are best at, but "deconcentrating," as U.S. strategists call it, would be a political retreat that might well affect the morale of their troops and their hold on the peasants. Alternatively, they could go into Phase 3 anyway, perhaps even with...
...Vietnamese that the Communists can hardly be expected to understand. The Communists themselves chose South Viet Nam as their test case and springboard to the conquest of all Southeast Asia. There are signs that they are already beginning to regret it. The U.S. has picked up the gauntlet, and it is not only Vietnamese nationhood but all of free Asia that stands to be ultimately strengthened by the extraordinary-and still burgeoning-commitment of the lives and talent and treasure of America in Viet...
They flee across the 90-mile Straits of Florida in any kind of weather, in anything that floats-from stolen fishing boats to rafts made of inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats...
...Much? Picking up the steel gauntlet will turn out to be an expensive proposition. To soften the financial community's opposition, Wilson resolved to pay far more than is really necessary for the private steel shares the government intends to buy up. The White Paper's schedules of compensation for private shareholders of the present firms are nearly 25% above the current market value of the stocks, and will cost the treasury an estimated additional $330 million over the total market price of $1.2 billion. Wilson's unexpected largesse predictably sent steel shares jumping upward...
...shot "I don't know where"-it was, it turned out, into the head of an 18-year-old freshman. And the third victim, a 58-year-old packer, died of a heart attack minutes after (and, maintains his widow, because of) running the snowball gauntlet on West Cumberland Avenue...