Word: raye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sting-Ray Tactics. In one important sense, this response sidestepped the point of what is going on today in Viet Nam under U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams. By last week the Army had mustered its case and through a number of spokesmen was spelling it out in Saigon. As so often before in the baffling, complicated war, it was a case easy to fault but difficult to refute, possessing an interior logic of its own, but lacking in reference points to reality on which all reasonable men might agree...
...increased-in the form of many more smaller-scale actions. Abrams has found that forays by sub-battalion-size units -companies, platoons, even squads -can be mounted more quickly, more often and in more places. Such surprise sweeps also achieve better results. Thus the general's sting-ray tactics, designed to interdict the movement of North Vietnamese units and supplies, involve the same number of men but hundreds and sometimes thousands more of what Abrams prefers to call "initiatives" rather than "offensives." As Abrams explained it last week to TIME Correspondents Marsh Clark and Burton Pines in Saigon: "Since...
...only do sting-ray tactics unsettle the Communists, U.S. commanders in Viet Nam claim, but they also keep down casualties better than the defensive war that some critics would prefer the U.S. to fight now. A recent study shows that the ratio of Communist to U.S. casualties is 12-1 when U.S. troops take the initiative. When they remain in defensive enclaves, the ratio drops to 3-1. Those figures may have an "illusionary nature" too, but they doubtless have some basis in fact. Sting rays also keep the Communists away from cities and reduce civilian casualties, Saigon argues...
Bitter Beginnings. Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes...
During the second week of freshman football practice, Kalinoski broke his collarbone when a quarterback fell on top of him. Although he recovered for the baseball season, he found himself in a pitching rotation that included Ray Peters, Bob Dorwart, and George Lalich. At the fourth spot, he won three games...