Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their daily raids to the North, striking at roads and munitions dumps, trucks and bridges. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed that air strikes in North Viet Nam had already shattered 24 vital bridges (see following pages) and that more would fall in the immediate future. On the ground, South Vietnamese troops continued their steady pressure on the Communist Viet Cong, and in swampy Kien Hoa province, 50 miles south of Saigon, government Rangers, supported by U.S. jets and helicopters, killed at least 150 Viet Cong in a running battle. The powerful U.S. presence was being felt even...
...decision was for Wessin y Wessin because, according to the New York Times, Administration officials "mistrusted Bosch's judgment on the ground that he was 'color blind' toward 'reds' in his seven months in office in 1963." The U.S. government seems incapable of understanding that social reform, not Communism, is the central concern of Latin Americans...
...push against them. His broad mouth and wide eyes go from smile to shock with none of the obvious self-satisfaction in a welldone trick. Though some of his comic material is childish and inane, Weisman's actions provoke our willing laughter, especially when he's playing in home ground, being the snoring student in lecture or the pretentious flamenco guitarist...
...Johnson Administration is sending more bombs and more troops to Vietnam every day. The ground war continues to go badly. That is why it was necessary for Johnson to up the ante again, with incessant air-raids and new waves of Marines, to stay in Vietnam...
...must be won, as every American general admits, in the South on the ground. But by whom? There are three possibilities. One could deploy Saigon soldiers alone, Saigon soldiers with U.S. advisors, or Saigon soldiers and a massive number of American fighting troops. The first two possibilities have failed; Johnson is obviously reluctant to try the third, and with good reason. Such an American offensive would unite practically the entire Vietnamese nation against the United States. America would be fighting alongside a tiny minority of South Vietnamese who would lose everything if Ho Chi Minh took over, and against everyone...