Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Come & Get It." A 1st Cav brigade set out immediately in pursuit of the retreating Reds to check out intelligence reports that seven and possibly nine 2,000-man regiments were assembling in the highlands. "I gave them their head," recalls Westmoreland, "and told them their mission was to pursue and destroy the enemy." In the foothills of the Chu Pong massif, practically in Cambodia's backyard, the brigade found its quarry. Helilifted to a spot called Landing Zone X Ray, a battalion of cavalrymen found itself smack in the midst of the 66th North Vietnamese regiment. One platoon...
...year's most publicized delegation was led by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. With a group of four other Senators, two Democrats and two Republicans, Mansfield circumnavigated the world on a "fact finding" mission for President Johnson, in 37 days touched down for talks with high officials in 16 countries. Main topic of conversation: Viet Nam. Last week Mansfield's band returned to the capital and the majority leader reported his still secret findings to L.B.J., later talked with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara...
...whole American effort is dependent on public knowledge," reasoned one U.S. official. "If the public gets a phony idea, it would put dangerous pressure on the whole mission. The war needs understanding. Simplistic ideas are dangerous." His remarks received quiet but fervent applause from a Vietnamese official who asked for more Congressmen "to see for themselves the actual face...
India's Minister of Food Chidambaram Subramaniam flew into Washington last week on an urgent mission that may mean life or death for thousands of his countrymen. He came to appeal for tons more of U.S. food to help India stave off what threatens to be its worst food crisis in two decades. With Subramaniam came assurances from Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri that India, after years of giving top priority to industrialization, will put more emphasis on agriculture in the new five-year plan that begins in April, and will spend $11 billion for fertilizer, farm machinery, irrigation...
...much-decorated bomber pilot (Midway, Tokyo) who took over TAC at the height of the Berlin Wall crisis, turned it from a relatively small outfit into a major arm of U.S. airpower with 1,400 jet fighters, its own tankers and transports, and the ability to perform any tactical mission from the 1964 Congo missionary rescue to ground support in Viet Nam; of cancer; at Homestead Air Force Base...