Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, is a splendid father image-tall, shambling and folksy. Palme (pronounced Pal-muh), who is Erlander's protégé, is something else. The son of a wealthy, conservative Stockholm family, he was educated in an exclusive prep school, served two years in a cavalry regiment, and in 1947-48 spent what he recalls as "an absolutely wonderful year" at Ohio's Kenyon College, majoring in political science and economics and earning a bachelor's degree...
...Viet Cong units, which had previously controlled the area. Now, responsibility rests with the ARVN 7th Division, which is working hard to shuck its former reputation as the "Search and Avoid Division." "Ever since your 9th Division left," Colonel Tran Tien Khang, commander of the division's 11th Regiment, said last week, "we have had to work very hard. Before, every man averaged 20 days a month on operations; now, they average 28. This means that men are on patrol, on search missions or night ambushes, almost every day." So far, there has been little combat-in keeping with...
...throughout the country, with the heaviest concentrations in the III Corps area, which contains Saigon. While the enemy maintains strong support forces in its Laotian and Cambodian sanctuaries and north of the Demilitarized Zone, few large units have recently crossed into the South. One of these was the 24th Regiment of the 304th NVA Division, which disappeared into the North after the siege of Khe Sanh was lifted last year. In recent weeks the enemy has ominously deployed troops southward from II Corps to within striking distance of Saigon. North Vietnamese units have also begun showing up in force...
Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...
...first of many such ethical puzzles had been set. At 19, Kropotkin rejected a commission in a fashionable regiment for service in Siberia as aide to a provincial governor. As an already dedicated geographer, he set out to determine the course of the Amur River, a project that led him into a total revision of the geographical concept of Central Asia. He was impressed by the semi-Communistic "brotherly organization" of the Dukhobor sect. He proposed a sweeping agricultural reform, which was widely hailed. But then the whole enterprise bogged down in Czarist bureaucracies. "I lost in Siberia whatever faith...