Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Salan: "My decisions are made within a certain framework established in France before I took command. The framework is secret and personal." Salan described how he had stopped the Communists short of the Mekong River in Laos by creating hedgehog positions in the Plaine des Jarres and at Luang...
casualties are only half what they were in the same period last year. I am sending these charts to Paris." What General Salan did not say, being a professionally reticent man, is that the unpopularity of the war back home in France-and fear of its cost in casualties and...
According to the movie, the great love in Elizabeth's life was Thomas, Lord Seymour, lord high admiral of England. (According to some history books, Tom was an unprincipled wolf who tried to seduce the princess in order to maneuver his way toward the throne.) But there were complications...
In Washington's beehives of bureaucracy, it is Standing Operating Procedure for a department to spend its full annual appropriation, lest its budget be cut in the years to come. Last week the Marine Corps' commandant, General Lemuel Shepherd, told the House Armed Services Committee of the most...
Just when it looked as if the armistice talks were about to break off, and General Harrison, the U.N. senior delegate, had warned the enemy that "time in these discussions is fast running out," the Communists resorted to an old and reliable maneuver. They threw in some bait, in the...