Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More immediately, a cutback in European troop levels would do much to ease the balance-of-payments problems that have plagued the U.S. Treasury and drained Bonn's Bundesbank for the past few years. Last week the U.S. routinely announced a reduction of its NATO force that will remove 35,000 men from West Germany, starting next January...
Target-Range Marksmanship. Designed to protect conventional 140-m.p.h. Hueys and other troop-carrying choppers against ground fire, the Cheyenne will pack rockets, anti-tank missiles, a grenade launcher and belly-mounted automatic cannon. Even its looks can kill: if the gunner, using a computer and enemy-seeking infra-red sight, has his hands full with one target, the pilot, who wears a special sight-equipped helmet, can automatically take aim at another merely by glancing...
...could only understand its own strength-see the numbers in its ranks-it would overcome that sense of impotence. It would bring its weight to bear-through the electoral process, if necessary, in 1968-to alter the direction of our present policy. Instead of continuing escalation, increasing bombing and troop commitments, it would call for de-escalation, leading to negotiations and eventoal disengagement. The thrust of its criticism would be that the Administration now appears to place higher priority on military victory than on political solution and that our present policy may involve us in a broader war which...
...intensifying, with mounting casualties on both sides. Aided by a sudden infusion of mortars and fresh weapons, and often impelled by a growing sense of desperation, the Viet Cong have turned more aggressive in the hope of scoring some badly needed victories. With the increase in the U.S. troop levels-which last week reached 427,000-more Americans are ranging through the countryside than ever before, spoiling for a fight. The war's vicious turn was reflected last week in two sets of statistics...
...captains and lieutenants of 16 or so, pitch camp for two weeks on the Isle of Wight. They leave half their supplies behind on the boat, neglect to put the kettle on for tea; on the second morning, all that is left to feed the whole Brownie troop is eight slices of toast. In the brief pauses between muddled meals, the Guides manage to lose each other, usually during a hilarious drill called "stalking," in which they are all over the heath like big-rumped, slightly spastic tiger kittens. Author Glyn is a connoisseur of chaos...