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...said he hoped the internal difficulties in South Vietnam would not hamper military operations against the Viet Cong guerrillas...
Kenneally's bill was trick legislation, intended to affect only the proposed MTA construction in Codman Square. But a law passed by the General Court would hamper the MTA throughout the Common-wealth, and the bill seemed so certain of passage that the MTA had to act to head...
...where government enclaves are only islands in a sea of Viet Cong. The plan was a clever two-pronged attack against the two government-held cities of Cai Nuoc and Damdoi, which lie 15 miles apart on the southernmost tip of Viet Nam. To confuse government reinforcements and to hamper their speedy arrival, the Viet Cong first feinted at three neighboring outposts, sowed mines on a major road over which government troops had to travel, and poured harassing mortar fire on a U.S. helicopter airstrip in the area...
...project. Seeking such assurances, however, only gives added strength to charges made abroad that the United States regards the International organization merely as a means for forcing other countries to help execute American foreign policy. It can of course be argued that the United States should not try to hamper Castro's activities by starving the Cuban people. But in any event, if helping support the agricultural project in Cuba is distasteful, it should still be accepted as part of the cost of the benefits which United Nations programs provide...
...Malaysia's birth date draws nearer, Indonesia's President Sukarno is doing all he can to prevent it. His government continually blusters about intervening militarily in British Borneo. Authorities in Singapore feared that local Communists might try to sabotage British bases on the island in order to hamper British retaliation in Borneo. Sukarno is also making muscles against Malaya, which would be the dominant state in the new federation. Djakarta has excluded Malayan fishermen from their traditional fishing grounds off the coast of Sumatra. An Indonesian gunboat recently sank a fully laden rubber barge inside Malayan territorial waters...