Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour of duty in Culver Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1940. He won a Silver Star as a platoon leader in The Netherlands during World War II. Since then, journalistic service has taken him to other wars: the Hungarian Revolution, the Congo uprising and Viet Nam. For the past six years, his Washington assignment has kept him close to the long, echoing corridors of the Pentagon. Laurence Barrett, who wrote the cover story, put in three years covering the Pentagon for the New York Herald Tribune. He claims no added skills from his Army career as a private...
...other South Vietnamese leaders, had shied away from such meetings on the ground that these might constitute de facto recognition of the Front. Emphasizing this concern, Thieu stressed that the Saigon government has no intention of allowing the N.L.F. to join any sort of coalition government in South Viet Nam, and he barred any Communist participation in elections, at least as overt...
...have managed to make perhaps more lasting gains along China's own borders. In three encounters, the Soviets have been able, partly through China's own maladroitness, to increase Moscow's influence at the cost of Peking. Soviet counsel seems now to prevail in North Viet Nam, though Ho Chi Minh apparently retains a high degree of independence by playing off one side against the other. In Laos, the Russians have managed to prevent the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from falling under Chinese influence. In North Korea, the Soviets capitalized on Peking's insults...
...British policy to keep Nigeria one and to keep it one by force of arms," he wrote. "Because the British government have never publicly disassociated themselves from these wanton and deliberate bombing raids-as they felt compelled to do in regard to the American bombing raids on North Viet Nam-Britain must bear a very grave responsibility...
Look magazine sent Churchill in 1966 to Viet Nam, where he flew in air strikes against the Viet Cong, shared trenches with U.S. infantrymen and concluded: "More than ever I am convinced that Britain must stand behind the U.S. in Viet Nam." With fortunate timing, he arrived in Israel just before the war with the Arabs broke out in 1967 and he covered it for the London Evening News. He also got a wire from his father, Randolph: SUGGEST WE DO JOINT RUSH BOOK. WHAT DO YOU SAY? Their book, The Six Day War, sold 170,000 copies in Britain...