Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those Marines who survived had to do what Marines hate most: retreat, leaving their dead behind. Waiting until reinforcements arrived, the Marines went back for their dead three days later. Within 600 ft. of the first ambush, the North Vietnamese attacked again, killing 15 Marines and wounding 22. But this time U.S. air and artillery forced the Communists to withdraw, and the dead were at last brought out, many piled atop tanks...
...across the DMZ. To do so, they had to establish a major line of outposts in terrain and a location where logistics favor the enemy. It is an offensive stance in a place where the Communists have short, efficient supply lines and also a sanctuary into which they can retreat, their own homeland, where the Marines cannot pursue them. Above all, Red soldiers can operate covered by their own artillery and rockets, dug in deep inside North Viet Nam's border and difficult to uproot from...
...offering much practical help. After Soviet Russia weighed in with a draft resolution demanding that Israel give up all it had won, delegates from Zambia, Somalia, Malaysia and Burundi read off lengthy speeches asking that Israel be condemned for attacking the Arabs and forced to retreat from Arab territory. Yugoslavia, supported by 16 pro-Arab nations, submitted a resolution calling for Israel's unconditional withdrawal but not condemning her as the aggressor. Nepal, Peru, Ireland and Argentina, among others, supported the U.S. view that any withdrawal must be accompanied by an Arab agreement to live in peace with Israel...
When they made their retreat, however, the Viet Cong ran into an exploring American patrol and killed nine of its ten members. In two other clashes in the northern coastal provinces of the country, U.S. troops killed 130 of the Viet Cong's black pajama-clad regular soldiers, lost only six of their own men. During Operation Beacon Torch in Quang Nam province, U.S. Marines killed 57 North Vietnamese. During the battle, ten leathernecks also fell...
...previous week at an interfaith Colloquium on evangelism at Notre Dame. Others were veterans of the series of theological dialogues carried on by the Roman Catholic hierarchy with various U.S. Protestant churches. Still others had attended talks at the World Center for Liturgical Studies in Florida, the Packard Manse retreat house in Massachusetts, the Jesuits' John LaFarge Institute in Manhattan, or countless other U.S. interfaith gathering places...