Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Special Forces are also stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, on Okinawa and in the Bavarian Alps. There, 26 miles south of Munich, some 300 men occupy a former Nazi SS barracks, live a tough outdoor life in which they become expert at skiing, mountain climbing, parachuting and skindiving. In twelve-man teams, they visit nearby friendly nations to learn the terrain, practice landings from submarines along the coast of Norway and mountain tactics in Greece...
...Laos have given it pressing immediacy. Thailand today is particularly vulnerable to what U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Todd Young calls "aggression by seepage." Some 45,000 North Vietnamese, many of whom settled in Thailand during IndoChina's war against France, have been heavily infiltrated by Communist agents. Among the mountain tribes of the north, there is no sense of nationality and no loyalty to the central government in Bangkok. What is more, some 9,000,000 Thais of Lao stock live in the isolated, scrubby, and impoverished northeastern provinces just across the muddy Mekong River from their ethnic brothers...
...wife of a public figure but not one in my own right." With that, the couple went into seclusion on the ranch, which is 125 miles southwest of Caracas and was once owned by Simón Bolivar. The Rockefellers picnicked on a 6,500-ft. mountain, relaxed in the white twelve-room hacienda. They were isolated from the rest of the world except for a single radiotelephone circuit. Critical Clergymen. Meanwhile, away from the ranch, there was continued criticism of the wedding, especially by clergymen. Declared Philadelphia's Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson: "It is an appalling shock...
...government troops had set foot since 1938. In one of the biggest drives against the Communist Viet Cong since the guerrilla war broke out in 1959, South Viet Nam's government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long operation was to destroy Viet Cong food caches and cut the Reds' main supply line, the 400-mile Ho Chi Minh trail to North Viet Nam through neutral Laos. The Reds had plainly evacuated the area in advance, but Vietnamese officials explained that they...
...letters formed an elegant chronicle of hope and hardship, ambition and anguish, written by a plain man who looked only up. In the moonlight, Jim Whittaker wrote to his mother, "this is the most beautiful mountain in the world." "Onward and upward," he wrote to his brother, despite his sorrow at the death of a fellow climber. "I've been an individual enough of my life," he wrote to his wife, Blanche. "The important thing is that someone makes it. I'll be happy to go as high as I can or as high as I am permitted...