Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Figures released in Saigon for the week ending March 25 showed a grim new record of 274 American soldiers dead in a single week. The previous high of 240 had stood since the week before Thanksgiving in 1965, when the battle of la Drang Valley took place. The toll was exacted at an immense expenditure of Communist blood, with a new record of 2,774 enemy dead in the week. The figures brought to 8,560 the number of Americans fallen on the battlefields of Viet Nam since 1961, compared with 187,000 Communists killed. Last week the enemy toll...
...fresh flowers and a bottle of Russian liqueur. In the first two days of the assault, however, they succeeded in killing only 19 Viet Cong. Later, as their horseshoe-shaped net tightened, a few more Viet Cong began showing up. In a series of firefights, the Viet Cong death toll had risen to 49 by week...
...followers, mostly peasants just in from the country, fled to the nearby Gran Hotel, where they took 117 guests as hostages, including 89 Americans. For 24 hours, Nicaraguan army machine-gun and rifle fire slapped against the hotel's faded green stucco walls. The total death toll was four guardsmen and 60 civilian rebels. None of the foreigners were killed...
...great many of those faced with the prospect of military duty find it hard to square performance of that duty with concepts of personal integrity and conscience. Even more are torn by reluctance to participate in a war whose toll in property and life keeps escalating, but about whose purpose and value to the United States they remain unclear...
...these arguments eventually hinge on the question of proportion: whether the toll in death and pain is proportionate to the possible gains. The most vocal critics of U.S. policy answer no, but for various reasons. Scarcely anyone argues that a favorable outcome in Viet Nam is essential to American survival. On the other hand, few would agree with the position at the opposite extreme-taken by U Thant, among others-that Viet Nam is completely unimportant to U.S. interests. Chicago Professor Hans Morgenthau, a strong critic of U.S. participation in Viet Nam, defines that what is moral is what...