Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the impact of the firepower on the Vietnamese and he said, yes when it comes to bombing a village or a town, the enormous firepower from the air takes its toll. Primarily, he pointed out, on civilians, and in person I was able to see this on the ground later on. He said, however, that when it comes to controlling the country-side, this can be done only by infantry troops with riflles going out and winning an area and then controlling it and keeping it. And he said that the enormous gains of the firepower were lost...
...said in the winter of 1965-66, the first year of major escalation, the United States had some 200,000 ground troops in Vietnam. He said during that winter the U.S. attempted to launch offensive actions in all four areas, from the I Corps in the North down to the Delta. He said that they weren't really effective in too many of them, but they were on the offensive in all four...
...next year, the winter of 1966-67, during the dry season the U.S. had some 400,000 troops on the ground, yet was able to launch an offensive action in only the I Corps area. In the other three areas they were on the defensive, or holding tight. He said that in the winter of 1967-68, the United States forces with over 500,000 men on the ground, were unable to launch an offensive in any single of the four corps areas. Indeed, he said, to the contrary his own forces, stronger than they had been before, were able...
MERGERS A German Solution For '20 years, Europe has been a good shopping ground for wealthy and resourceful U.S. corporations seeking to acquire other firms. This month one such U.S. corporation bent on buying out a German company was thwarted by a remarkable emergence of national feeling. Cologne's Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz, producer of tractors, diesels and trucks, triumphed over the U.S.'s Inter national Harvester for control of Maschinenfabrik Fahr, manufacturer of West German farm equipment...
When I sing I can bring Everything on the wing Flying down from dizzy air To the ground, because I care...