Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret adventures are mentioned in the Foreign Relations Committee's report. But they include: American bombing missions in northern and southern Laos from Thai air force bases in Thailand; probes by U.S. Special Forces teams from South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos; secret forays into China from northern Laos by specially trained CIA teams (now reportedly halted); the formation, funding and training by the CIA of an irregular army of up to 15,000 Meo tribesmen; large-scale operations throughout Laos by Air America, the CIA's unofficial flag line in Asia...
...will be far exceeded next year. Eugene McCarthy spent $11 million in a campaign that was centered on the primaries. Robert Kennedy entered seven primaries in an eleven-week whirlwind campaign at an estimated cost of $9 million. Richard Nixon managed to shake his loser image on the primary trail, but not before it cost his supporters between $10 million and $12 million...
...country's growing economic difficulties, which most Britons attribute to his austere policies. The latest Gallup poll showed Heath's popularity to be at its lowest point since he took office one year ago; only 31% of those questioned approved of his performance. In addition, the Tories trail Labor by 18 points in voter preference, a reading that has been substantiated in Labor victories in recent by-elections for Commons seats. There are presently 800,000 unemployed British workers, the highest number in 30 years, and only last week Scotland's famed Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, who constructed...
...experiment. The gunboats move so swiftly (top speed: 40 knots) that their crews must be strapped into their stations. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who is Chief of Naval Operations, has dubbed them "triple trailers" because they are assigned to lurk behind the Soviet vessels that trail U.S. ships...
...North Vietnamese have already gained control of Snuol at the far southern terminus of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In the course of five days of fighting, they mauled an ARVN task force of 4,000 holding the town, forcing it into a disorderly retreat. Saigon insists that it had long planned to leave Snuol once the rains began, yet there is plenty of evidence that ARVN departed with embarrassing haste. It left behind no fewer than 72 vehicles-including tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks -and eleven artillery pieces. The U.S. Air Force had to bomb the abandoned...