Word: refitment
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...last February. Altogether, the Communists are believed to have, pulled a quarter to a third of their 120,000 main-force troops out of South Viet Nam into North Viet Nam and the Cambodian and Laotian sanctuaries. It is still not clear whether that withdrawal decision was tactical, to refit and regroup -as most U.S. military men believe - or whether it was political, to encourage and maintain the bombing halt...
Still, the Communist units may have pulled back merely to regroup and refit, as they have done so often in the past. Washington concentrated on an amplitude of other significant clues that a bombing pause might be in the works. There has been an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks, ranging from Peking and Paris to the Pedernales. Three weeks ago, Cyrus Vance, the No. 2 U.S. negotiator in the slow-paced Paris peace talks, flew home to confer with the President. Early last week Johnson cut short a stay at the L.B.J. ranch to return to Washington...
...reactivated to haul materiel for the Korean War. After a brief stint transporting grain to India, she was retired again. Last week the Red Oak, one of 101 Victory ships dragged out of mothballs for service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship weighs anchor for Viet Nam with a cargo of lumber and ammunition. Said Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson...
...after the 1929 crash; of cancer; in Manhattan. A sailor by avocation, Shields and his business partner-brother Cornelius helped make yachting a mass U.S. sport by popularizing smaller boats with lower costs-6-Meters, Stars, Interclub Dinghies. Last year he paid more than $300,000 to buy and refit the 12-meter Columbia, successful 1958 America's Cup defender, in hopes of repeating, but the Columbia failed to brace up in trials, and the Weatherly won the 1962 defense against the Australians...
...have spent more than six years fruitlessly chasing handfuls of F.L.N. guerrillas over mountains and through deserts. To many observers, it seemed clear Challe planned to launch an invasion of Tunisia and wipe out the so-far-untouched F.L.N. bases where an estimated 20,000 rebels rest, train and refit for battle inside Algeria. In short, Challe saw himself doing the dirty work for De Gaulle and then handing over to him a fait accompli that De Gaulle could not easily refuse...