Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation." Wheeler went out of his way to blunt the growing criticism of the way that General William C. Westmore land, the U.S. commander, is conducting the war, and to slap down speculation that he might soon be relieved of his command. "A corollary purpose" of the tour, said Wheeler, "is to convey to General Westmoreland the great confidence placed in him by the President, the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...hold Khe Sanh, for he believes that the loss of the outpost would allow the Communists to roll from the mountains of Laos right down to the South China Sea. Addressing American sailors on the deck of the 60,000-ton aircraft carrier Constellation last week during a tour of U.S. military facilities, he put his feelings into forceful words. "Men may debate and men may dissent, men may disagree," said Johnson, "and God forbid that a time should come when men of this land may not-but there does come a time when men must stand. And for Americans...
...reinforce the thinly spread U.S. fighting forces in Viet Nam was uncertain. Members of both the House and Senate Armed Services committees predicted that Johnson would raise the present 525,000-man ceiling on U.S. troops there by 50,000 to 100,000, or extend the current Viet Nam tour of duty (currently twelve months for soldiers, 13 for Marines), or both...
...Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of History of Science, recently returned from a Southeast Asian tour which took him to South Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia...
...author of that threatening boast walked up to a snake charmer in the Indian city of Agra last week and, while his aides looked on aghast, seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders. Making a ten-day tour of India, the commander of the Russian navy was acting like the traditional sailor on shore leave. He viewed the Taj Mahal by moonlight, visited the Nehru Museum and the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated, and shopped for souvenirs. But Admiral Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov's trip to India...