Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition of 7,000 Screaming Eagle paratroopers was accomplished during a month-long secret airlift, largest of its kind during any war, and boosted U.S. strength to 477,200-topping the peak American force of 472,800 in Korea. More G.I.s are on the way, as Westmoreland presses to achieve a total force of 525,000 promised by President Johnson for next June, several months ahead of schedule in order to press his new offensive...
There is, of .course, the lingering suspicion and secret hope that Ho's regime simply does not know how poorly it is doing. Lacking the ability of their U.S. counterparts to tour the battlefield regularly by helicopter, North Vietnamese commanders are at the mercy of reports from the field. How fanciful those reports can be was illustrated by the captured enemy summary on the battle of Loc Ninh. Instead of admitting disaster, the Communist commander reported that his forces destroyed "a U.S. armored battalion, a U.S. rifle battalion, a U.S. artillery battalion and one puppet (South Vietnamese) regiment...
From his self-imposed exile in Paris, for mer Premier Constantine Karamanlis had heated up the political climate by calling on the junta to step down. Politicians on both the right and left sent the King secret assurances of their support, should he make a move. His advisers, mostly retired generals, assured him that the military would obey his commands. Furthermore, Constantine sensed a growing threat to what was left of his royal power. He may also have feared that the new constitution that was being prepared under junta guidance would strip the crown of the power of appointing...
...Constantine's coup turned out to be little short of a comedy of errors. A few days before his target date, he ordered Olympic Airways to place two planes at his disposal-a tip-off to the junta's ubiquitous secret police that the King had some travel in mind. His method of heralding the coup was even less auspicious: he simply sat down at his palace desk in the Athens suburb of Tatoi and wrote a letter to Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, the army chief of staff and a junta supporter. In it, the King told...
...understood that the reason for keeping the resolution secret was the Law School administration's desire to avoid division in the University community should the Harvard Administration fail to act. "This is considered a private affair between the Faculty and the Administration," one professor said...