Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends, and be the greatest moon expert in the universe. But inevitably, doubts sneak up. Earthmen will patronize him, and give him their bags to carry. Whipping himself into a meaningless fury, he decides to fight: "I don't care how many rocks they have. I know the terrain...
...Britain and France threw their weight against intervention, and U.S. Army generals counseled that jungly, mountainous Laos, with few roads, only two usable airstrips and no coastline, was an awkward place for the U.S. to fight. Democratic leaders in Congress also opposed intervention. "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," said Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...easily visible. They are bright and distinct. The entire picture of the firmament has much more contrast than when seen from the earth." The sunlit side of the earth, he said, was quite plain, and he could easily see the shores of continents, islands, big rivers, folds in the terrain, large bodies of water. When passing over the Soviet Union, he spotted the great squares of collective farms. He could even tell cultivated land from pasture...
...airborne 503rd Battle Group, part of General Isaac Davisj White's Pacific Army command, can move out of Okinawa in two hours. These paratroopers know their way around Laos-like terrain: they recently completed maneuvers in the Philippines...
Time & Temper. But the Laotian terrain and temperament are both frustrating. Military men view with distaste the prospect of fighting a sputtery war that could be fed endlessly across the long borders with the Communist world...