Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of sheer size, South Viet Nam's military establishment is impressive. Counting Army, Air Force, Navy, and various paramilitary forces, it totals 1,022,000 under arms. Another 1,500,000 belong to local self-defense forces, armed with a number of outdated but still reasonably effective weapons. Regular soldiers have seen their equipment steadily improve in quality. The U.S. was slow to supply the best weapons to South Viet Nam's forces. But now all 185 maneuver battalions of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) are equipped with U.S.-supplied M-16 assault...
...Still more important is ARVN morale. For many South Vietnamese soldiers, military duty may begin at the age of 18 and end at 40-if they survive that long. Unmarried infantrymen earn a bare dollar a day. Until recently, the military postal system was so poor that soldiers could never count on their letters and remittances reaching home. Caught in a war that promised to be endless, led by officers who often owed their jobs to bribery or political clout, yearning to return to their families and their hamlets, South Viet Nam's soldiers fought either poorly...
...began to vanish. ARVN units stood and fought-and in many cases fought well. Last year the South Vietnamese lost 17,466 men, the U.S. 14,592. As American arms reached South Vietnamese units in steadily increasing numbers, the performance of the troops continued to improve, as did morale. Still, ARVN is not yet a match for its .enemies, particularly regular North Vietnamese units. Major tests are likely in three areas where U.S. combat forces either have left or are scheduled to pull out soon...
...from 125* nations who launched the General Assembly's 24th session, a similar mixture of muted hope and outright despair seemed to prevail. Few expected the 13-week session to produce much progress in settling the world's major conflicts in Viet Nam and the Middle East. Still, there was always the possibility that some crises could be eased at private diplomatic meetings in the town houses and apartments of New York. At one such meeting, held in U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's 38th-floor office suite at week's end, representatives...
...24th President of the U.N. General Assembly, Liberia's ebullient Angie Brooks, is no stranger to the job of keeping order among large and contentious clans. Though long divorced, she still supports 19 adopted children in Liberia. Over the years, besides raising her own two sons, who are now grown and working in her country, she has been foster mother to 47 youngsters. The maternal image is enhanced by her ample figure and by the matching lappa (skirts) and turbans that she prefers to the businesslike suits worn by most other women delegates...