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Word: reliefer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the siegeworks complete, fully 6,000 fresh Communist troops waited silently in the jungles around Plei Me. They had carefully set up another Dong Xoai-style battle, hoping to draw relief force after relief force into a merciless meat grinder. At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Reds turned the handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Seven Days of Zap | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...Corps headquarters in Pleiku, a government relief force was quickly assembled but more cautiously dispatched. While its tanks, M-113 armored personnel carriers, artillery and a thousand infantrymen crept in by road, a helicopter landing force of 250 Vietnamese Rangers dropped boldly into Plei Me at first light. Commanded by burly, boulder-bellied U.S. Army Major Charles H. Beckwith, 36, of Atlanta, the Rangers quickly filled the vacuum caused by the Reds' initial assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Seven Days of Zap | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Seven Days of Zap | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...races-African, Asian, European and Arab-Jomo Kenyatta has forged the closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever before, much to the relief of whites and Asians who might otherwise feel their random wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...miles south of Key West. And then there was the distraught exile who could not get up the price of a boat to Cuba to get his family out, and unsuccessfully tried to hijack a National Airlines Electra bound from Miami to Key West. Washington could only sigh with relief that an agreement for a "safe and orderly" evacuation apparently was near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: And Now by Air | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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