Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ball Deferred. In Thailand, Humphrey inspected the ornate wats (temples) and expertly demonstrated the wai-the traditional Thai greeting that consists of a slight bow with palms pressed together at the chest. Visiting the impoverished, Red-infiltrated northeast of Thailand, Humphrey told Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman: "You have some fine country here. It looks like Minnesota." His main aim in Bangkok was to assure the Thai government that the Administration's new emphasis on social goals in Southeast Asia portended no diminution of the military effort to repel Communist aggression. The joint communique issued by Humphrey and Prime Minister...
...penny a round, villagers could fire at targets with authentic .30-cal. machine guns. The feature was tragically appropriate: war, in the form of Communist guerrillas, is slowly marching down the jungle trails to threaten the peace of Tat Phnom and hundreds of similar hamlets in Thailand's Northeast provinces...
Another is Robert Resseguie, 25, a native of Madison, N.J., and a former Peace Corps worker in Thailand. He is now an assistant AID representative in Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. After the U.S. Marines had cleared an area of Viet Cong in last summer's Operation Starlight, Resseguie led nearly 20,000 refugees back to their deserted homes, helped provide them with food and building material. Unfortunately, as soon as Starlight winked out, the V.C. winked back inan evidence of ineffective follow-through that has plagued pacification efforts all along...
Many of these objects lay hidden in sealed chambers from the 3rd century until 1937 when French archaeologists excavated the crumbling city of Begram near the Hindu Kush, the mighty massif that barricades Afghanistan to the northeast. Roman glassware, Chinese lacquer work and Indian ivories were found together, revealing that the East and West were closer together in 300 B.C. than in the days of Marco Polo, 15 centuries later...
...demonstrate that search-and-destroy tactics can defeat the Viet Cong in any significant way. Secretary McNamara has said confidently that "we are no longer losing the war." But neither are we winning. All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, 300 miles northeast of Saigon, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly a Viet Cong stronghold; or in areas like Chu Lai where American seapower provides tactical support unavailable inland. Even where we have "destroyed" the enemy, guerillas have repeatedly re-infiltrated after the completion of operations. Pacification...