Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bear out the effectiveness of the President's move in this regard. But what the escalators ignore is the fact that they may have run their gamut. Public opinion is not likely to support outright bombing of North Vietnam's population centers. And the people will tire of this phase in the war as readily as they did of the last. That is what Thomas Adams is banking...
...easy to make changes," sighed Louisiana's Democratic Congressman F. Edward Hébert. "But what changes?" As the House Armed Services Committee ended the first phase of its inquiry into the draft last week, that enigma was as far as ever from solution...
...year-old group, chaired by Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, started with two days of closed sessions, followed by three days of public hearings. This initial phase of the investigation was restricted to Dodd's relationship with Julius Klein, a Chicago-based public-relations man and lobbyist who has a number of West German industrial and quasi-political accounts. Boyd said that in December 1964, his long-held concern about the Senator's dealings with Klein was sharpened by Dodd's reports of his campaign financing, which he said, concealed the "misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...ranks and political indoctrination as much a part of a soldier's training as bayonetry. He had even recruited Japanese jungle-warfare instructors from the retreating enemy he had just fought, and had carefully collected every weapon the Japanese left behind. It took four years to get Phase 1 and Phase 2 going well enough to launch Phase 3-the first of his major offensives against the French forces...
Myth Enhancing. He scored some successes but more signal defeats, largely because he lacked artillery to compete with the French in set-piece conventional battles. After a stinging series of losses in 1951, Giap admitted that he had tried to push into Phase 3 too soon; he retreated into the hills and paddies to reassemble his forces. The chance for annihilation came at Dienbienphu, when the French, thinking Giap still had no heavy artillery, dropped paratroops into a valley, hoping to draw Giap into combat. But Giap had obtained over 100 American 105-mm. howitzers from the Red Chinese, carted...