Word: ruggedness
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Military engineers will start work late this year or early in 1968 on the barrier, known so far to the Pentagon as Project Dye Marker and immediately nicknamed "McNamara's Wall." But it will be no ordinary wall: instead of a Maginot line of concrete and steel, great tracts...
In the rugged hills near Piaxtla, an isolated village in the state of Puebla, a modern auto recently pulled a bright orange trailer toward a group of waiting campesinos. They unhitched the trailer, hooked it up to a pair of brown oxen, and the animals plodded to the top of...
Thus posed, the problem might have been designed by an imaginative war-college instructor to baffle his student officers. In fact, the unsettling task was just what confronted the Israeli armed forces last June when they assaulted Syria's Golan Heights. But after Israel's swift and decisive...
In the Saudi summer capital of Taif, King Feisal was "pleased" at Nasser's offer, and the Imam-living in exile half a mile from Feisal's summer palace-promised to send his rugged royalist troops to fight with Egypt against Israel, if Nasser finally does live up...
This song is heard these days in the rugged jungle country of southeastern Bolivia, where it is sung by a band of Castro-style guerrillas who are harassing the eleven-month-old regime of President René Barrientos. Though they number only about 100 men (some say as few as...