Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least well run-as long as the other side can repeatedly determine when and where the action is to be. Johnson responded to Westmoreland's latest request for help with determination, giving the marching orders just 48 hours after the general's message arrived. Yet once again the U.S. was on the defensive, reacting to the enemy's initiative...
...battle raged with full fury in the rubble-strewn Citadel, the early 19th century imperial fortress that holds much of Viet Nam's architectural and cultural treasure. As thousands of refugees huddled under a grey pall from countless fires, 1,000 U.S. Marines crossed the river to help the 2,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen and Marines fighting to recapture the former royal enclosure, once known as "the Forbidden City...
Finally, with much of his army again in ruins-and with Radio Amman broadcasting appeals for blood donors -Jordan's King Hussein called it quits. He asked the U.S. embassy in Amman for State Department help in arranging a ceasefire. Washington, which only the day before had authorized a renewal of arms shipments to Jordan, was glad to step in, and the Israelis quickly agreed to silence their guns...
...besides petty politics. Under Mora's amiably inefficient regime, the OAS's ponderous, bureaucracy has grown from 300 people to 1,400, corruption is spreading at lower levels and a general lassitude has settled over the organization. But if anyone is equipped to meet the challenge and help the OAS achieve its goal of Latin American cooperation and development, Plaza...
...hardy band of holdout colleges is stubbornly bucking the irreversible trend toward greater reliance on Washington. These schools even shun the federal help already available, prefer to try to make it on their...