Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claims of Victory. Soon, the guns fell silent along 1,000 miles of battle ground between India and Pakistan. At Pakistani airbases, pilots stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...
...welcome of a Viet Cong battalion. "I've hit a buzz saw," Smith shouted into his radio as two choppers crashed. Smith lost all three of his company commanders, had 24 of his 28 helicopters hit or disabled, got only half his troops on the ground and into battle. But reinforcements tried again, and in two days of short, brutal clashes, the Eagles rammed the Viet Cong backward into a holocaust of bombs and napalm from U.S. planes, finally turned the field over to the incoming 1st Cavalry Airmobile (TIME, Sept. 24), somewhat bloody but purged...
Fanning the Flames. In the eyes of many Dominicans, the main thing Juan Bosch's return will contribute to the situation is trouble. As President he proposed some badly needed social and economic reforms. But they never got off the ground during his inept administration, and Communists infiltrated deep into his government. After he was deposed and exiled, he became a writer-in-residence at the University of Puerto Rico; when the April revolt erupted, there he sat, making no move except to issue pronouncements that only fanned the flames. In general, he backed the rebels and denounced...
...negotiations sputtered, ground to a halt, then limped into low gear again, the atmosphere around the New York newspaper strike fairly bristled with stiff pronouncements. The Guild's chief negotiator, Executive Vice President Thomas J. Murphy, saw "no progress." Said he: "This is no longer collective bargaining but a test of strength." The newspapers, said John J. Gaherin, president of the New York Publishers Association, "are being asked for things that are just impossible. The publishers' backs are firm as a ramrod...
Under the sponsorship of UNESCO, scientists from more than 70 nations began this year to pool their research talents and facilities in the International Hydrological Decade. IHD scientists are already establishing a worldwide net work of hydrology stations to map climate conditions, to study precipitation, ground-water levels and stream ecology, and to measure water's capacity for self-purification. Says Michel Batisse, a French engineer who heads the IHD: "It may turn out that the most important results of the IHD will not be strictly scientific but the side effects. For the first time, and forever, modern civilization...