Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were infiltrating at the rate of a regiment every two months. From the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula to the 17th parallel, huge swaths of the South lay under Communist sway, and with good reason: in that year, the Viet Cong had kidnaped or assassinated 11,000 civilians, mostly rural administrators, teachers and technicians...
Westmoreland belongs to the age of technology-a product not only of combat but also of sophisticated command and management colleges from Fort Leavenworth to Harvard Business School. The son of a textile-plant manager in rural South Carolina, Westmoreland liked the cut of a uniform from the time he was an Eagle Scout. Though he never made the honor roll at West Point, he was first captain of cadets (class of '36) and won the coveted John J. Pershing sword for leadership and military proficiency...
...Peace Corps volunteer-12,000 men and women working in the city slums and rural villages of 46 countries-teaching, nursing, farming, helping people get on their own two feet so that the war corps need not go out again...
...Simbas-or what is left of them -are scattered throughout the bush. Yet some of them are still heavily armed and capable of menacing rural villages. The job of keeping them under control now passes to Major John Peters, 38, a onetime street fighter from the grimy English mill city of Leeds. A specialist in coping with sticky situations, Peters was called upon to break the Simbas' front line at Baraka, the toughest battle the mercenaries ever fought. Peters stood up, gripped his officers' baton (he never draws his pistol in battle), and led an attack that broke...
...three drinks. He worries about integrating his schools, so far partly accomplished by bussing Negroes to junior high and high school. He once strode into a TV studio to interrupt an education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer's school budget phony, Newcomer said the man "either can't read, or he's stupid, or he's dishonest...