Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most active U.S. bank overseas, Citibank this week will open its 127th foreign outpost in Colombia's port city of Cartagena. This year it has sprouted eight other foreign branches from West Berlin to Kuala Lumpur. At home, it has blanketed New York City and suburbs with 151 branches, fully exploiting its status as the city's only nationally chartered bank, thus being exempt from New York State's strict limits on branching. Hoping to catch up with Citibank, stockholders of Chase Manhattan last week voted to switch to a national charter...
Died. Jan Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born "world shoe king" when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
...ground just seven miles from the Cambodian border, Due Co guards the critical highway against infiltration from the west and prevents the Reds from cutting South Viet Nam in half. The V.C. had carved an intricate web of trenches, tunnels and "spider holes" to within 300 yards of the outpost, which was manned by only twelve American Special Forces troops and some 400 Bahnar mountain tribesmen. Reports indicated that a Viet Cong regiment was in the area. Saigon's generals decided that Due Co could not be allowed to fall. Out of Pleiku, 40 miles to the northeast, rolled...
...Tactics. Viet Cong tactics have changed subtly along with the changing nature of Red troops and armaments. In the past three months, there has been a sharp decline in the number of attacks on government outposts, compared with the same period in 1963 and 1964. But the fewer thrusts have been conducted by bigger Red forces, aimed at specific targets, and have proved far more effective. The tactic is built around ambush: a small V.C. force hits an isolated government outpost; as government relief forces rush in by road or helicopter, a larger V.C. force mousetraps the rescuers...
Final Takeover. In any case, Green will be manning a post that is fast becoming an outpost. With the phasing-out of the U.S. AID mission, the USIA and the Peace Corps, the number of Americans on Government business in Indonesia has dropped to about...