Word: pincers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Shah of Iran looks at a map of his region he has a nightmare vision. He sees a Communist pincer movement closing in on him from South Yemen in the south and Afghanistan in the east. He once remarked, "Whenever I get up in the morning, I always ask what happened the night before on the Arabian peninsula and in Afghanistan." The Shah is convinced that the crisis facing his nation is the result of a cunningly executed master plan conceived years ago by the Soviet Union...
...Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon, who proposed it shortly after the 1967 war. The plan provides for Israeli surrender back to Jordan of all of the west bank except for a chain of fortified outposts along the Jordan River, with a corridor between the two ends of the pincer-like line of Israeli positions. The corridor would be gradually widened by Israeli withdrawals if peace then continued to prevail...
...shoes as they tried to get back across the Suez Canal, leaving their armored corps in a smoldering heap in the Mitla Pass. Let no one forget the "War of Attrition," including that memorable day in 1970 when the Israelis trapped Soviet MiGs just north of Cairo in a pincer of Phantoms and Skyhawks and shot down five of the Russian-piloted aircraft. Many of these stunning achievements were made possible, to be sure, by a steady flow of funds from the U.S. ($9 billion in public and private aid of all kinds since 1948), but through their courage...
...where Indian forces reportedly had encircled them. The Indians have yet to capture the major cities of Chittagong and Dinajpur. Neither army permitted newsmen unreserved access to the contested areas, but on several occasions the Indian military command did allow reporters to accompany its forces. The three pronged Indian pincer movement, however, moved much more rapidly than was earlier believed possible. Its success was largely attributed to decisive air and naval support...
...Saigon-American troops caught a North Vietnamese force in a pincer movement in the central coastal plain yesterday, killing 128 enemy soldiers in day-long fighting...