Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combination of caution, feinting, meticulous preparation, and enormous concentrations of firepower and manpower. Giap's precise strategic aim at Khe Sanh is less clear. A North Vietnamese lieutenant who defected reported that Hanoi's goal was to wipe out U.S. forces in Viet Nam's northern provinces in order to provide a bargaining advantage in negotiations. But the U.S. command believes that Giap's aim is less ambitious, if more familiar: to surround the base camp at Khe Sanh and chew it to pieces, killing and capturing most of its American defenders while other Communist units...
...with the King. It removed former Premier Constantine Kollias, who had accompanied the King on his flight to Rome, from his post as Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and gave dishonorable discharges to 33 army officers, including Lieut. General George Peridis, who tried to rally army troops in northern Greece to the King's cause. It also dismissed 56 university professors for disloyalty to the regime and barred them from teaching in Greece for life. Meanwhile, seven colonels who hold posts as secretaries general in the junta Cabinet followed the example of Premier Papadopoulos by resigning from...
Crumbling Resolve. The Communist aims in northern Laos were less clear...
...worked out with the Chicago Great Western, and would like to include the Milwaukee Road. The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, with 9,200 miles of frequently parallel track, hope to merge too. The Missouri Pacific is anxious to take over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The three "Northerns"-the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington-have been given tentative ICC permission to combine lines that cover most of the territory between Chicago and the Pacific. The Rock Island Line, an enticing property despite financial difficulties, has a plethora of suitors. Hoping to take all or part...
...effort to do that, the railroads are showing increasing enterprise. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, among others, have opened sales offices in the Far East. The Pennsy, in turn, has opened offices in seven European cities. The aim is to build up a business in containerized shipments that can be handled by rail after they are unloaded from ships. The U.S. railroads are pushing to establish a "land bridge" service by which freight bound between the Far East and Europe would travel by ship to the U.S., go by rail across the country...