Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Junction City, which cost upwards of $25 million, the U.S. threw in 30,000 troops, the equivalent of two entire army divisions, and sent noisy C-130s over the area to deliver the first American combat parachute jump of the war. Giant trees crumpled as B-52s from Guam, 2,600 miles away, swept in to carpet the forest with high explosives. Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm and thermite bombs, setting brushfires that blazed for days. Helicppters thrummed in to deposit entire platoons of infantrymen, and armored personnel carriers rumbled through...
...were getting in their licks too. Up in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division killed 225 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in a series of fulminating fire fights after the Reds had ambushed two of its companies. B-52 bombers from Guam plastered the Red positions with pinpoint accuracy, while the men of the 4th fought their way out of the hole. All told, it was one of the war's bloodiest weeks to date, and the blood was predominantly from the other side...
...There are about 1,400,000 American high school students in poverty. Some number have the smart and the persistence to negotiate some college somewhere. We think it's about one-half--or 700,000. We have hold of a piddling 20,000 of these in Upward Bound from Guam to Maine. The distribution of these students is important. Some per cent of all poverty high school students live in each state. We try, not always successfully, to spend Upward Bound money roughly in proportion to those per cents...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Hope's holiday tour of military bases in Guam, Thailand, the Philippines and Viet Nam. Among Bob's troupers: Phyllis Diller, Vic Damone, Reita Faria (Miss World), and Les Brown and his Band of Renown...
...miles southeast of Bangkok. U.S. Air Force KC-135 jet tankers already fly from its 11,500-ft. runways, and Washington hopes that Thailand will soon approve the transfer to U-Tapao of the B-52 heavy bombers that now must make a 5,000-mile run from Guam to bomb in Viet Nam. Fearful of direct North Vietnamese retaliation, Thai officials are wary about granting such approval. "If the B-52 question were to arise," said Foreign Minister Thanat on a visit to Washington last week, "we would have to evaluate it in the light of our national interest...