Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Pueblo's fate is dimming in public memory and Viet Nam troop levels have been stabilized, many reservists feel there is no longer an overriding need for them to stay. "We don't have any idea when it will end," complains Airman First Class Eugene Potter, 21, who left his salesman's job to shuffle papers as a clerk with the 445th Wing. "If we had some kind of idea what we will be doing, we could make plans...
...attempt to free the peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national liberation become viable, exportable commodities," says Corson, who views the escalation from about 650 U.S. advisers in 1959 to today's 534,000 troops as a gambler's compulsive urge to multiply his stake on a losing number. As requisites for victory, Corson wants U.S. troop strength halved and all bombing over North Viet Nam halted...
...time being, at least, the Soviets seemed merely to be putting on a show of force across the borders of Czechoslovakia in order to pressure Dubcek into slowing the pace of liberalization. Radio Prague announced belatedly that the troop movements were part of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and that the Czechoslovak government had been notified in advance that they were to take place. But the hard-liners were clearly trying to put heat...
...Maplewood, N.J., whose father deals in real estate, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Capable of inflammatory rhetoric on an improvised platform but often disarmingly polite with his professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba earlier this year), has tutored youngsters in Harlem in his spare time...
...island on rented motorbikes and lounged on beaches or around hotel pools. But after dark, Bermuda took on a new atmosphere. Everyone was ordered off the streets, and soldiers threw up barbed-wire barricades. Extra police patrolled the downtown area. Lights blinked late on the newly arrived British troop frigate, H.M.S. Leopard, which bobbed at anchor in a Front Street berth normally reserved for cruise ships. Thus last week Britain's oldest colony uneasily approached its May 22 elections, the first in the island's 284-year history in which everyone over 21-both Negro and white-will...