Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrating increasing boldness in other ways as well. Bedouins have lately probed deep into the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula, successfully mining major Israeli roads and getting within twelve miles of strategic Mitla Pass. In one raid last month, an Egyptian patrol killed two Israeli soldiers and kid naped a third. Last week Cairo followed up its barrage by proudly announcing a policy of "preventive defense," meaning that "Egyptian forces will no longer allow the enemy to attack first. Egyptians henceforth will launch offensive operations...
...most baffling question of all about the ground war is raised by the Communists' much-heralded "third offensive" against Saigon. Anticipated as a follow-up on the February Tet offensive and the second-round attack against the capital in May, it has been thought imminent since mid-August. Yet there is still no clear sign that it is coming; in fact, the pressure is off Saigon and the other major cities. Saigon has not been shelled in three weeks...
...during the May offensive. Allied forces claim to have killed more than 13,000 Communist troops within the past month, almost four times the enemy casualty rate during the early-summer lull in fighting. One seasoned Marine general believes that the Communists no longer intend a third attack on Saigon for just this reason. "They don't have the capability," he argues. "They have lost too many...
Mindful of the overblown optimism of earlier days in the war, General Abrams is not yet willing to say that he has the enemy on the run. He recently told Washington that he thinks the third-wave offensive began late in August and then petered out. The Communists could renew it at any moment, he said, or they could simply stretch out their timetable. They might even abandon the attack altogether. If they do, Abrams thinks that Hanoi might rapidly ask for a cease-fire and begin negotiating in earnest at the Paris talks. But he emphasizes that that...
...young protesters are of Jewish origin. A survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee in San Francisco last year found that 30% of Haight-Ashbury's hippies were Jewish. The Hillel Foundations, campus arm of B'nai B'rith, concluded that Jewish students made up one-third of last spring's Columbia protesters...