Word: norths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict is going down, not up. So is the draft call, which is dropping more than 3,000 in July to the lowest monthly figure so far this year. Richard Nixon's approach may fail. The effect on the Paris negotiations may be nil (see following story). The North Vietnamese could choose to increase rather than reduce their military effort. Despite these caveats, it is also possible that Nixon's tactics could start a downward trend on the violence scale...
...sort of looks as if we ought to be putting some more troops in," says Edmunds. Specialist 4/C Francis E. Rodriguez, 21, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a rifleman in the 9th's 2nd Brigade, agrees. "I think our biggest mistake was stopping the bombing up North," he says. "As soon as we pull out, there's going to be beaucoup trouble...
...ride a bicycle. We think we can do it, but you never know until the man running alongside takes his hand away." Thanks to better training, better equipment and massive support from U.S. air and artillery, the South Vietnamese are improving. But they are still no match for the North Vietnamese, especially in leadership and fighting zeal...
...bottle," but experts in Washington and Saigon agreed that the change was not without point. The N.L.F. is plainly trying to upgrade its status from revolutionary cabal to one of parity in the world's eyes with the existing Saigon government. Instant diplomatic recognition came from 15 countries?including North Viet Nam, Cuba, North Korea, Algeria and the U.S.S.R...
...test run through the long ice-choked Northwest Passage to the Arctic next month. Denver's King Resources Co., wagering that the Manhattan will make it, has drafted plans to build a deep-water port in Maine's Casco Bay. That port is even closer to the North Slope than Seattle is. No Alaskan oil is expected to be delivered to any of the "lower 48" states before 1972 at the earliest. But its existence may provide Congress with the reasons it needs to mate some major changes in the oil industry's present privileges...