Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persistently to persuade the wealthiest nation on earth of the need to uproot poverty. None has achieved more for the advancement of education and health. If Johnson occasionally steps back emphasizing a law and order bill rather than a new package of civil rights proposals, for example his retreat is almost certainly tactical, not strategic. He is aware that Harlem cannot be rebuilt in a decade, much less a year...
...present administration could not bring about such a solution because, Hoffmann said, the "government is too deeply involved in its own arguments. What we need is some kind of President who has the sense to wage a strategic retreat from Vietnam...
...Viet Cong first broke through the perimeter opposite the refugee quarter and forced the outmanned militia force to retreat aross the road into the town proper. There the militiamen were surrounded and isolated-and for the rest of the macabre night pointedly ignored by the marauders. The Viet Cong were not intent on a military victory but on the coldblooded, monumental massacre of the helpless Montagnards...
...directly under the glaring searchlights and Russian-made machine guns of Ulbricht's 15,000 Grepos (Grenzpolizei or border guards). Each watchtower is manned by two sentries who are under orders to shoot to kill. In case of heavy firing from either East or West, the Grepos can retreat to 188 new concrete bunkers, which have been built alongside and in front of the towers. A few steps farther is an asphalt pavement, just wide enough to enable armored vehicles to race up and down the border; it is followed by an area of plowed earth and then...
Crouching, dodging and crawling, the Americans returned up the slope to link with the shattered company coming down. They made it only because one soldier, wounded in both legs and disobeying orders to retreat, propped himself and his machine gun up in the middle of the trail. He held the Communist attackers at bay until his company got away, gunning down an estimated 17 before slumping dead over his smoking barrel. The beleaguered battalion regrouped and called in air strikes. As the jets roared in at 500 feet to blast the top of the hill, one released...