Word: outflankers
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...staff not to form the union, but they voted overwhelmingly to go ahead. The publisher retaliated by dismissing Executive Editor Roger Therond and Managing Editor Lacaze. Again the staff rebelled and voted to reinstate the editors. Prouvost backed down-for the moment. Abject Failure. But he soon proceeded to outflank his staff. Without ostensibly firing the reinstated editors, he installed a new triumvirate over them...
...main Soviet objective is to outflank NATO's land-based defenses?a goal that the Russian navy has partial ly reached by penetrating the Mediterranean. In a report to the Western European Union last November, Dutch Delegate Frans Goedhart warned: "It is no longer correct to speak of the 'danger' of the Soviet Union outflanking the NATO southern flank. This 'danger' has become a reality." To the north, the Russians have also turned the Baltic into a virtual Red Sea on which their warships now outnumber NATO forces...
...major point on the DMZ defense line, the barrier that U.S. forces have sought to string from the sea below the DMZ to the Laotian border. It now blocks off the easiest supply line that Giap has into South Viet Nam. By taking Khe Sanh, the Communists would outflank all the allied forces in Quang Tri province and part of Thua Thien province as well, probably forcing a fallback to a new defense line?perhaps as far back at Hué. As Giap well knows, Khe Sanh has become almost as vital symbolically as it is militarily; a Communist victory there...
...second Marine company was sent west to outflank Trung An, and soon was pinned down itself in the village of An Hoa. The fire was so heavy that rescue and supply choppers were driven off, and soon the Marines were without food or water, sucking bamboo for moisture. A third company finally broke through and managed to pull its casualties back into a nearby church. All that day mortars crashed around it, but none hit the roof. Even so, it was more than 40 hours before enough helicopters could get in to evacuate all the wounded. The next morning...
...paper was floundering, and staff morale sank. The Trib had ample gimmicks but little direction. "Editorially," says New York Times Executive Editor Turner Catledge, "they couldn't seem to make up their minds whether to slug it out toe-to-toe with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite...