Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included in the 145,000-man total of forces now in Viet Nam. But they are very much a part of the war, and not merely of the air war. When U.S. Marines systematically took apart a V.C. regiment on the Van Thuong peninsula south of Chu Lai last August, two destroyers and a cruiser of Task Force 77 bombarded V.C. bunkers, blasted to pieces a Red company that tried to escape over the beach. Fact is, Seventh Fleet Commander Admiral Paul P. Blackburn's floating artillery can make life miserable-and hazardous-for the V.C. up to fifteen...
...former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish...
...Russian takeover of the huge British base at Singapore would not only produce "a stalemate" on the Malayan peninsula, as Lee observed, but also block the strategic Strait of Malacca and disrupt the entire balance of power in the Southeast Pacific. The idea was all the more surprising because a) Britain has no intention of leaving anytime soon, b) the U.S. has its hands full in Viet Nam, and c) the Soviet Union is so monumentally uninterested in Lee's problems that it has not even troubled to recognize the infant nation in the six weeks since...
...part of Operation Piranha, a joint U.S.-Vietnamese assault on the Batangan peninsula 20 miles south of coastal Chu Lai-and a suspected supply base for guerrillas operating in the area. At dawn of Piranha's first day, big naval guns pounded Batangan's beaches from offshore. Then an American amphibious force slipped ashore, while Vietnamese marines and army troops helicoptered inland to close the trap, and a U.S. Marine unit choppered down atop Batangan's commanding 660-ft.-high hill...
...visit to Saudi Arabia. He had arrived in Jedda harbor aboard his presidential yacht Hurriah (Freedom) to negotiate with King Feisal a way out of the stalemated three-year war in Yemen. Egypt's ruler was ready to compromise, for his long, expensive military campaign on the Arabian peninsula was an obvious failure...