Word: marinese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said Bellow: "The President intends in his own way to encourage American artists. I consider this event to be an official function, not a political occasion . . . Therefore I do not think it necessary to acquaint him with my position on Viet Nam or to send him a statement declaring that...
COMPARED with most other areas of cold-war conflict, the Dominican Republic is a small country, its civil war a minuscule affair. Yet in the six weeks since the first of 20,500 U.S. Marines and paratroopers landed in Santo Domingo, the Johnson Administration has faced a drumfire of criticism...
The Reds took their lumps too-particularly when U.S. air and sea power could be brought to bear. When the Viet Cong probed the new U.S. airbase and port facility at Chulai, they were beaten back by U.S. marines and the 8-in. guns of the U.S.S. Canberra, a Seventh...
After a look around, Alvim advised President Johnson that the situation seemed well enough in hand to withdraw more U.S. troops. Almost immediately, Johnson ordered the last 2,100 marines out, leaving 12,500 U.S. paratroopers and 1,560 troops from Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, plus a 6...
Marines will, in effect, install a new Dominican government which will be permeated with Communists at all levels. -Columnist William F. Buckley Jr.