Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gutsy Duck. To replace Lodge, who saw U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam rise from 16,000 to 420,000 during his current 19-month tour, Johnson tapped Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, 72. A courtly, starched-collar Vermonter who in 1951 left the sugar industry for diplomatic duty, Bunker is a tall, spare man who is known as a deft negotiator. As Ambassador to Argentina, he dealt with Dictator Juan Peron during a period of rabid Argentine anti-Americanism, had the satisfaction of seeing him exiled. In other troubleshooting assignments, he served as a mediator between Indonesia...
...letter, the President offered to end all U.S. raids on the north and to put a freeze on U.S. troop levels in the south "as soon as I am assured that infiltration into South Vietnam by land and by sea has been stopped...
...from Congress. After two weeks of debate, the Senate passed a $4.5 billion supplemental appropriation bill for the war in Viet Nam-and battled down an attempt by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to tack on an amendment demanding that the U.S. either declare war or freeze troop levels in the South at 500,000 (nearly 415,000 are already there). Convinced that Clark's rider would be defeated so decisively that the vote would be interpreted by U.S. hawks as a blank check for unlimited escalation, Mansfield performed some fancy legislative footwork. He offered a meaningless...
...progress. Moving into the "Twin-River Complex" of Chuong Thien province, a battalion of South Vietnamese infantrymen walked into a trap. One company was hit as its American-piloted helicopters put down in the paddy-and-palmetto plains between the Nuoc Trong and Cai Lon rivers. Four "slicks" (troop-carrying choppers) were shot out of the sky by Chinese-built 7.9-mm. antiaircraft cannons; another four "gunships" (helicopters carrying rockets and machine guns for close support) dropped like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes. Pinned down behind low paddyfield...
...Matter of $50,000. Baker was one of nine defense witnesses. Glen S. Troop, an S & L industry lobbyist and former Baker crony, related, at Bittman's prodding, that the idea to raise the disputed campaign contributions had been Baker's-not, as Bobby had testified previously, a West Coast S & L executive's. More helpful was T. Edward Morris Jr., an official of Washington's National Savings & Trust Co., who said that Kerr had made visits to his safe-deposit box, number G-302, on Oct. 22 and Nov. 5, 1962-dates on which Baker...