Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, now at 310,000, has reached "the maximum level of American troop strength committed in Korea in the 1950s." For this, it argues, the President is solely responsible. Not until well after Johnson was safely elected in 1964, the document points out, did he openly commit U.S. ground forces to combat in Viet Nam. Nor was this decision forced upon him by the SEATO treaty or by "any other obligation entered into by an earlier Administration...
...long upward odyssey, man has never been confronted with anything quite like it. It is an ocean without shore, yet it bathes every nation's border. It is a military "high ground" of measureless potential, yet no nation has so far dared to exploit it. It is a resource of such proportions that man has only begun to tap it. And in all this vast province of opportunity called space, no writ runs. All the experience of quest and conquest, of discovery and exploration of the earth provides scant precedent for dealing with the promise and problems of space...
...conveyance that would only occasionally be used for broadcasting international events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...
They did not. Hit by waves of Ma rines on the ground, pounded by the big guns of the U.S. Seventh Fleet off shore, the Reds held out for five days, then fled with their dead...
Ever since the U.S. began bombing North Viet Nam in February of last year, American pilots have been puzzled at the way Ho Chi Minh has used his air force. There were always plenty of MIGs on the ground, and bomber crews occasionally reported sighting small formations of the Russian-built fighters on the horizon. But the MIGs seldom ventured to attack unless the odds seemed overwhelmingly in their favor. Never have they made a concerted effort to protect any target. Never have they been seen over the Panhandle, the vital staging area for all military units infiltrating the South...