Word: lai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAPT.) FRANCIS T. COLEMAN Legal Assistance Officer 1st Marine Division Chu Lai, South Viet...
None dared. Her words were more than mere defiance of party snipers. Most political experts agreed that her fiery speech was the clearest indication yet that she intends to continue as Prime Minister after next February's general election. When she was selected last January to succeed Lai Bahadur Shastri, some members of the Congress Party supported her on the theory that she would be the best national figure to lead the party into the elections. After that, they reckoned, she could be shelved in favor of another candidate...
...taken quite a while to get India's Prime Minister to the U.S. The invitation had been extended originally to Lai Bahadur Shastri in January 1965, was put off somewhat tactlessly by Lyndon Johnson three months later, and re-extended in October. When Shastri died before he could make the trip, the invitation went out anew to his successor, Indira Gandhi...
...36th. Appropriately enough, the most spectacular one last week belonged to the marines, who celebrated the anniversary of their arrival by virtually destroying the North Vietnamese 36th Regiment. The marines had been hunting the 36th for nearly three months when the Red command post was finally pinpointed between Chu Lai and Quang Ngai. Four battalions of marines and four of Vietnamese government troops closed with the 36th in Operation Utah, a three-day battle that gave the marines their toughest fighting in a year of war. The 36th was well disciplined and well armed with the new Chinese Communist...
...relatively simple task for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. Calming them down has turned out to be a good deal harder. After all, Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated in a dozen towns. Throughout Pakistan, the feeling grew that Ayub had sold...