Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a BB. Known as "Quick Kill," the program is currently being taught to some 1,300 recruits each week at Fort Benning, Ga., by late fall will become part of the basic infantry course in all twelve U.S. Army training centers. "Quick Kill is for the shot you've got to make when you don't have time to line up your sights," says Colonel William Koob, 47, director of weapons at Benning. "When it's either kill or be killed." After a day of instruction and the expenditure per man of 800 BBs (which cost...
...build a nation, and to try to bring enough pressure and pain to bear on the Communists to force them to come to the negotiating table-or quietly de-escalate the war. All of these aims require a continuing U.S. momentum of success on the battlefields, and of late that momentum unfortunately has flagged. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker frankly told McNamara: "The enemy offensive has been blunted but not halted. Hanoi seems determined to continue the war in anticipation that we will get tired of the heavy burdens we are carrying...
...Conventional Front. By late 1967 or even midyear, Allied commanders had expected that big-unit war would have become too costly for the enemy, and that the war of regiments and battalions would be substantially over. Far from fading, however, the big-unit war has grown fiercer in recent months. Moreover, big-unit victories and massive Allied search-and-destroy sweeps have not so far advanced the vital pacification program, partly because South Vietnamese troops have been slow to take to their new village-security tasks. No matter how many North Vietnamese regulars are killed along...
...record 296,000 despite an estimated 46,500 killed this year alone. Fewer than half are North Vietnamese troops or Viet Cong main-force fighters, but these "regulars" are at least as numerous as a year ago. Their weaponry has markedly improved in variety and quality of late, from new AK 47 automatic rifles to rockets to the Soviet RPG-7 anti tank gun, which last week knocked out a Marine tank for the first time in the war. Last week, also for the first time, the North Vietnamese zeroed in on the Marines with Russia's family...
Mexico's progress is the result of more than 30 years of political and economic stability under the uniquely long-lived, seldom heavy-handed rule of P.R.I., the Institutional Revolutionary Party. But P.R.I, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz have had a scattershot of troubles of late. Within the past 18 months, Diaz Ordaz has had to use paratroopers to quell student strikes on three campuses and militia to put down several rural protests over food prices and campesino grievances. Outside the glittering, wealthy cities live nearly half the people, scratching out incomes that average less than $16 per family...