Word: rearm
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...Armed with World War II-vintage M-1 and .30-cal. Brownings, an ARVN company was no match for a Communist company fitted with AK-47 automatic-firing Chinese assault rifles. Long before the decision to move ARVN toward taking over the brunt of the fighting, Abrams fought to rearm the South Vietnamese with the best U.S. weaponry, and the first ARVN units received M-16 rifles late last year. Now the supply will be speeded up-and broadened. Defense Secretary Clifford announced last week a dramatic increase in the U.S. production of the M-16 so as to equip...
...term Pro- letariat, because intellectuals and white-collar workers felt left out. Rationelle Arbeit, which means rational work in West Germany, has become East Germany's pet euphemism for work per formed in accord with party goals. In the West German dictionary, aufrusten means t6 rearm. The East German dictionary warns that when the word is used in Bundesdeutsch, or Federal German, it means "to increase the number of troops and their equipment with aggressive intentions...
...unflinchingly accepted German guilt for the war and the Nazi atrocities and unhesitatingly made massive reparations to Israel. Adamantly opposed to Communism as a tyranny as evil as Nazism, he insisted that U.S. troops remain in Germany. And when the time came, he insisted, too, that Germany rearm as part of NATO even though much of German public opinion opposed it. He built the Christian Democratic Party into West Germany's strongest, and made it live up to its name-both parts. He was, as Socialist Willy Brandt observed last week, above all a man who "set standards...
...mile round trips from Guam for their missions in Viet Nam. Though there are no present plans to make U-Tapao a full-time B-52 base, the huge birds may well use the new nest as a turn-around point from where they could rearm or refuel...
Prophets' Dream. Wallace finally bowed to reality in 1950, when the Communists invaded South Korea. He broke with the Progressive Party, advised the U.S. to rearm "as fast as possible," and became "convinced that Russia is out to dominate the world." In the years of cold war and domestic affluence, he became a forgotten figure. He spent his last years on his 115-acre experimental farm, Farvue, in New York's Westchester County, rising at 4 a.m. each day to work with his plants and to write. Mellowed in retirement, he quietly accepted an invitation to John Kennedy...