Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold programs intact until an end to the war permits an expansion in the works of social justice here at home. Let us remember, however, that we must have a Congress and an Administration that will allocate the peace dividend to domestic needs. This was not the case after Korea...
...quick decisions aloft is a Schirra family specialty. Wally's father was a World War I fighter pilot who later barnstormed with his wife as wing-walker. Wally himself soloed at 16, and went into naval aviation soon after graduation from Annapolis. He flew 90 combat missions in Korea, shot down one MIG and scored one "possible." On the first unsuccessful attempt to launch Gemini 6, when the Titan booster belched smoke and flames without lifting off, Schirra correctly decided that there was no danger of an explosion. He made a split-second decision not to damage the spacecraft...
...mile range of the New Jersey's guns are 60% of the North Vietnamese targets now hit by bombers, and the ship requires no garrison to protect its perimeter. The 25-year-old New Jersey was brought out of mothballs once before, for the limited war in Korea, and took part in the siege of Wonsan. The ship is a veteran of the South China Sea. During World War II, it participated in strikes against the Japanese-held Indochina coast, at Saigon and Camranh Bay, and served as flagship for both Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Admiral Chester...
...empire overrun by the invading Mongols, China's last Sung emperor was cast into the sea. Kublai Khan became lord of an empire that stretched from Korea to Mesopotamia. In the next 90 years under the Yuan dynasty, which he founded, China experienced what seems to have been a wideranging artistic reorientation. Yet until recently, Chinese scholars could never bring themselves to study in depth this hated era of foreign domination...
Every military outfit has its G.I. lawyer, learned in the lore of a soldier's real or imaginary rights. But when 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...