Word: skirmisher
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...tank battle last week abruptly escalated the Kashmir trouble from a border skirmish to the brink of all-out war. The contending Asian powers are evenly matched. India's army is the larger (867,000 to 253,000), but the Pakistanis are much better equipped. In a contest of quantity versus quality, India could probably overrun populous but poorly defended East Pakistan in a matter of weeks but might meet disaster in the arid uplands of West Pakistan...
...still largely the sentry's war of short, sharp encounters: the bark of a close rifle, the sudden cough of automatic weapons, the crump of a single mortar, occasionally a scream as a knife finds its way through a rib cage. An "incident" may be anything from the skirmish of a dozen men to the blare of a propaganda bullhorn; whatever their nature, incidents are on the increase along the Gia Dinh perimeter. From February to April they averaged 37 a month. Through July the rate rose to 55 a month. Last month the total was 95, including four...
Outmaneuvered. At home, Johnson had another kind of skirmish to contend with. While a lot of Republicans out in the country have been backing Johnson's fighting stance in Viet Nam, some G.O.P. Congressmen have felt that it is time to debate the subject. This is pretty hard to do without sounding like a speaker at a college teach-in. But the G.O.P.sters thought they detected a mild rift between Johnson and Eisenhower in their respective positions on Viet Nam and decided to move into the breach. Naturally, they drafted a "white paper...
...Marine Regiment's 2nd Battalion landed in helicopters and were immediately pinned down by automatic-weapons fire from a low ridge ahead of them. After two hours, Marine jets swooped in with rockets, and the battalion's tough commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph ("Bull") Fisher, led a walking skirmish line up the ridge, with every third man firing from the hip. "Come on, you marines," yelled Bull Fisher as enemy bullets zipped past, "those ain't pinball machines firing...
...patrolling the area had swelled to 4,000 and 700 more were being flown in from Fresno. They set about "sweeping" three separate zones totaling 40 blocks; the largest was a section of Watts bounded by Century Boulevard, Central Avenue, Compton Avenue, and 103rd and 104th Streets. Forming a skirmish line that extended across a street from sidewalk to sidewalk, and carrying M-l and M-14 rifles with drawn bayonets, the Guardsmen stalked abreast down the street while police and deputy sheriffs followed them, arresting anyone on the street. Guardsmen killed a second Negro whom they found looting...