Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed at least 120,000 Montagnard soldiers and civilians. Of the 900,000 who are still alive, more than 20% are serving in the South Vietnamese military forces. Their casualty rate continues to be heavy-not because they are poor fighters (tough Montagnard Ranger battalions gave valuable support to the Green Berets during the '60s), but because they have been victimized by both sides. Their villages are often bombed when they are in Communist-controlled areas, and they are often attacked by the Communists when they are on the government side. Moreover, ARVN officers frequently send them into battle...
...fighting. Acts of sabotage have surfaced in recent months, several of which were apparently perpetrated not by blacks but by antiwar whites. The Navy is holding a white seaman as the suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white sailor for the sabotage. And the skipper of the ill-fated Constellation, while discussing his racial problems, admitted to newsmen that...
...north of Saigon is like watching mortar rounds being walked in on a position. Each day, when one drives up the highway through the flat open rice fields, progress is stopped closer to Saigon." The going on Route 1 is just as tough. The elite 81st Special Airborne Ranger Brigade, which helped save An Loc and recapture Quang Tri, is being tied down clearing areas only 16 miles from Saigon...
...musical collage in which a new work is created partly by grafting together chunks of other composers' music. The first movement had barely begun last week when, to the chuckles of the audience, out trumpeted the clarion call from Rossini's William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger's theme in bygone days). In the lugubrious second movement came some wintry wood wind chords right out of Debussy's Jeux...
Stoicism has always been part of Pat Nixon's stock in trade, and the inclement weather simply played directly to her strength. Time and again, spectators came away wondering at her true grit. Commented one journalist after her Yellowstone performance: "If every park ranger doesn't snowshoe to the polls to vote for Richard Nixon in November, they've got no sense of gratitude...