Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incentives. Rockefeller admits that all this has cost him millions-just how many millions he prefers not to say-as well as punishing physical exertion that can be calculated only by the fatigue etched in his broad face. His mission has not been entirely quixotic. Win Rockefeller, at 54, needs Arkansas as much as it needs him. Indeed, his brothers David, 51, president of New York's Chase Manhattan Bank, and Nelson, 58, Governor of New York, both use the same words to describe his incentives: "Win found himself in Arkansas." Adds David: "It was just what he wanted...
...Many Gooks. In a search-and-destroy mission in la Drang Valley, within sight of the Cambodian border, an American unit last week ran headlong into a powerful force of just such men, the freshly infiltrated 101C North Vietnamese Regiment. Once again, la Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered...
...safekeeping. At 19, he escaped and launched a campaign of impetuous brilliance that drove the British out of Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court of Spain. Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done by force...
Then, after World War II when American - not British - naval strength saved Australia from the threat of Japanese invasion, Aussies slowly began to come up from down under. In 1939, Canberra could boast only one "overseas" diplomatic mission; today, it has more than 50 - almost a third of them located in Asia...
...James A. Jabara, 43, the U.S.'s first jet air ace, who shot down 15 MIGs in his F-86 Sabre jet in Korea, was currently commander of a Stateside fighter group not yet posted to Viet Nam, though he did talk his way into flying one strafing mission over North Viet Nam after delivering a replacement plane last July; of head injuries when his 16-year-old daughter-who also died of head injuries-lost control of their Volkswagen and the car overturned; in Delray Beach...