Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the first five months of this year, southbound enemy truck traffic has doubled over that during the same 1965 period, while delivery of Red supplies south of the 17th parallel has jumped 150% and of troops 120%, to an estimated 4,500 men a month. As evidence, McNamara displayed a recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo...
...success in hitting targets that they have long ached to obliterate. When the nuclear-powered Enterprise finished an eight-month spell on Yankee Station off North Viet Nam in June, a squadron commander noted that the ship had launched more strike missions than any other carrier in a comparable period. Yet, he added ruefully, "we just haven't done the job we could have." Said a diplomat in Saigon: "How would you feel if you" were a pilot in the best air force in the world and had to write home to your wife and tell her that...
...European status quo. Both sides concurred in their earlier demands for an end to all foreign intervention in Viet Nam, and agreed to work toward improving "a climate of détente between East and West." To that end, France and Russia will engage in "regular consultations"-period unspecified-and install a symbolic "white line" between their capitals like that already linking Washington and Moscow. In addition, they signed two accords calling for Franco-Russian cooperation in science and space, including an agreement for the Russians to launch a French satellite...
...seamen had obtained nearly everything they wanted: a reduction of the work week to 40 hr. by next June (meaning more overtime), plus the promise of a whopping 48 days of annual leave. The settlement will increase the shipowners' labor costs at least 9.5% over a two-year period, shattering Wilson's 3.5% annual-increase guideline against inflation. Even so, the Communists and many of the more militant union members were still not satisfied, and might vent their unhappiness with wildcat strikes on some docks...
...pilots, Jeremy Kemp and Karl Michael Vogler convincingly uphold the glory of the German officer class, rattling off performances unalloyed with conventional tin soldiery and Prussian steel. Playing a hero-collecting countess who adds Peppard and Kemp to her trophy shelf, Ursula Andress is considerably handicapped by high-cut period costumes, though she manages to slither out of them from time to time...