Word: harassed
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...Vietnamese electorate warmed to its role, the civilian candidates who had been crying foul seemed to cool off. The civilian with the best chance of making a strong showing against the Thieu-Ky ticket, former Premier Tran Van Huong, announced that "harass ment has diminished." Front-running Thieu had his own reply to charges of election rigging: "If I were to win the elections by foul means, it would be an insult to myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people...
Convinced that the U.S. is hardly likely to commit so many men to the defense of South Viet Nam, Hanoi is determined to keep the U.S. forces that are there as busy as possible on the battlefield so that they cannot harass the Viet Cong operating in the countryside. North Viet Nam's recent aggressiveness along the DMZ, for example, is viewed by U.S. intelligence sources as an attempt to tie down large U.S. Marine forces in static defense, in order to relieve pressure on the local Viet Cong in populous contested areas where the Marines' pacification efforts have been...
...American University in both Beirut and Cairo to Palestine University, and Algeria compiled a list of "pro-Zionist" movie stars-including Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Harry Belafonte-and banned their films. On the banks of the Suez Canal, Egyptian commandos slipped across the canal nightly to harass the Israelis until finally, at week's end, they precipitated a pitched battle with Israeli forces...
...were to offer a Nation of the Year award, my vote would go to Israel. For the past 19 years, this bastion of democracy has survived in spite of the Arab commandment "harass thy neighbor." This tiny nation may yet fulfill the Biblical prophecy of being a "light unto all nations." Let's hope the U.A.R. is one of the first to see the light...
With her great long-range guns, the New Jersey could take over some of the heavily defended targets in North Viet Nam that have proved so costly to airmen. She could harass at will the North's main north-south highway, Route 1, which runs along the coast. And she could provide devastating ground support for Marine operations around the Demilitarized Zone. Though it may cost as much as $25 million and take about a year to modernize the New Jersey, chances are good that the thunder of the battlewagons will be heard once more...