Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Material Sharing. As the review board currently sees Britain's future defense posture, the 62,000-man Army of the Rhine must be maintained. Not only does it fill Britain's NATO ground commitment and give London a foothold in continental Europe, but also serves as a kind of strategic reserve which Britain uses to shuttle forces into African and Middle Eastern trouble, spots. The foreign exchange costs are high ($504 million a year), but the West Germans during the past year have come a long way toward offsetting those costs, and the British facilities in Germany would...
...typically a brief hit-and-run affair: the enemy usually runs as soon as the surprise wears off and U.S. units start hitting back with concerted firepower. The siege at Plei Me last month seemed a notable exception to the rule, as Communist troops in force stood their ground in a prolonged fire fight. But again last week, in two fierce engage ments near the "Iron Triangle" north of Saigon, Viet Cong troops surprised U.S. Army units - and then stayed around to boldly slug...
...first burst, close to the ground, caught the point man in both legs; then, veering upward, it ripped into the man behind - opening his stomach and chest and tearing off the top of his head. Another trooper, hit twice, man aged to claw his way almost to the cover of a tree. But bullets chopped him down just as he reached...
...machine guns of two Viet Cong battalions -some 700 men, perhaps - had the 173rd's C Company pinned down in a withering crossfire. "We got in posi tion," growled a U.S. sergeant later, "and when I say we got in position, I mean we got on the ground...
...elsewhere for satisfaction. Playwright Wole Soyinka stormed into the government radio station at Ibadan to demand new elections; he was arrested. Market women closed down their stalls in protest, leaving many towns short of food. Riots in one town left 35 dead. An other town was burned to the ground, and at Abeokuta, Awolowo supporters drove nails into the heads of a pro-Northern judge and his court clerk. All told, more than 70 persons were killed and hundreds injured in three weeks of post-election violence...