Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the Fence. It began two weeks ago when a Cuban militiaman slipped into the U.S. base at Guantanamo and -ignoring two warnings from guards -was shot trying to scale the fence back into Cuban territory. Castro angrily claimed that the marines had coldbloodedly gunned down the militiaman inside Cuba...
But now the government cordon was nearly closed. Ky's marines, backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away...
In the fighting against the Communists, new figures for the week ending May 21 showed the highest casualties for U.S. servicemen of any week in the war: 146 American dead, 820 wounded. Communist dead for the same period totaled 1,235. The two sets of statistics indicated the far-ranging...
Yet much of the increase can be traced to the two-year program. Harvard's Navy unit expects to swell from 74 to 126 this year, and mostly in two-year enrollments. The Air Force, composed of six cadets, now offers only two-year contracts, and has received 100 applications...
No Stomach. In Danang, Ky's strategy was simple but relentless. His 3,000 loyal troops-marines, airborne and Rangers-slowly drove the rebel force of 1,200 into an eight-block area centering on the east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset...