Word: maine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Main Threat. Around Saigon, the Communists last week began overrunning U.S. and South Vietnamese guard posts on the city's approaches. All week long there were sporadic fights around the vital Binh Loi bridge outside Saigon as the V.C. tried to cut the capital's link with the major U.S. bases of Long Binh and Bien Hoa to the northeast. U.S. intelligence placed three enemy divisions no more than two nights' march from the capital: the 7th NVA and the 5th V.C. divisions to the north and west, and the 9th V.C. Division to the northeast...
...Short Month. Menacing as the situation appeared around Saigon, the main enemy threat still hung over the northern provinces below the DMZ. The siege around Khe Sanh closed tighter than ever; the outpost is now surrounded by two divisions and a regiment. As the NVA crept closer and closer to the camp's perimeter, one probing patrol of South Vietnamese Rangers hardly got outside the camp when they came under heavy enemy attack and had to retreat. In a way, the entire northern edge of South Viet Nam has come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength...
...debris-covered avenues came U.S. tanks, their turret guns swiveling from side to side as if to sniff the air, then belching fire at the Citadel walls. Overhead, helicopters sprayed napalm across the ponds and courtyards of the Imperial Palace, and fighter-bombers blasted away at three main enemy positions. From below, out to sea, a U.S. cruiser kept shelling the Communists...
RELATIONS between management and organized labor in the private sector of the U.S. economy have been maturing for decades. Out of negotiation, intermittent conflict, legislation and court decision, there has emerged a generally workable system that breaks down on some spectacular occasions but in the main serves the cause of both sides as well as the public good. Not so in the crucially important and rapidly expanding public sector, which embraces everyone who works for government at any level-federal, state, county and municipal-and embodies every conceivable skill, from schoolteaching to garbage disposal. In that area, labor relations...
Grounds for Contempt. The main intent was to curb out-of-court talking by judges, court employees, prosecutors, defense lawyers and police from the time of arrest to trial's end. During that period, they would be permitted to give newsmen the defendant's name, the nour and place of arrest, information about whether the defendant resisted or was armed at the time of arrest, a description of any physical evidence seized, and the nature of the charge. The jurists and cops would be specifically barred from revealing any previous record, the results of fingerprinting and lie detector...