Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thuy inched a little closer to admitting that North Vietnamese troops are fighting in the South, but still refused to come right out and say so. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman in turn handed Thuy a report charging that Hanoi had decided as early as May 1959 to launch a military offensive against the Saigon regime. Since 1964, the document added, Hanoi has sent more than 200,000 men into the South, now has at least 85,000 there. Until the North Vietnamese ad mit their presence, said Harriman, "meaningful and frank discussions" are impossible...
...modest as the man, Shapiro's first week in office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state buildings to fight an estimated $170,500,000 revenue shortage, helped launch a campaign to fight crime, poverty and urban blight, and fashioned such cordial ties with the state senate that its Republican majority leader praised Shapiro's "practical, realistic way of handling things...
Only eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Dong Ha is the eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war. The Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village...
Another charge made by Hochhuth is that through certain insinuative speeches, Churchill manipulated Hitler into initiating a few scattered bombing raids on British towns. Churchill thus could feel free to launch massive retaliatory fire-storm raids on the hapless civilians of Hamburg and Dresden. Since it was Hitler's Luftwaffe that began indiscriminate mass bombing in an attempt to break British morale, this charge is patently false. In the matter of General Sikorski's plane-crash death, no convincing proof is proffered that Churchill had a hand in it. It is a tenuous personal speculation indicative only...
Shortly after the lightweights had polished off their rivals, they hopped into a launch to get a look at the Cornell crew. The Crimson saw the Big Red outdistance Columbia and M.I.T. for their 26th triumph in 27 races. Harvard meets Cornell in two weeks in the Eastern Sprints at Worcester. Last year Cornell took the Sprints, while Harvard finished fourth...