Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of last week, the enemy's major troop units had faded away, and the U.S. and South Vietnamese battalions were sweeping forward almost at will. They overran an enemy regimental staging area, a base camp, a 100-bed hospital with 1,200 lbs. of medical supplies, and a V.C. reception area strung with banners reading "Welcome to the National Liberation Front...
Barzel's propositions were merely an attempt to sweeten the pot for the Russians in their poker-face view of the European future. Yet troop presence remains at the very heart of Europe's past history and future development. Both of the world's two great powers have every reason to want their soldiers out of the frigid zones of occupation. In Paris last March, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin announced: "The War saw Pact nations will either reduce their military forces or even abolish them if a corresponding move is undertaken by the NATO allies in West...
From a force that grew to 30,000 men at the height of the civil war 13 months ago, the OAS troop contingent last week was down to 6,300 from the U.S., 1,150 troops from Brazil, and token forces from Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. At week's end two Navy landing craft were on their way from Norfolk, Va., to begin the evacuation...
...Gaulle's tampering with the European balance of power was producing results even before he took off for Moscow. Last week U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that eight squadrons of American aircraft-ranging from troop-toting transports to camera-carrying reconnaissance planes -would be withdrawn from French bases and restationed at High Wycombe in England and at undisclosed bases on the Continent. The move will displace 7,500 U.S. Air Force personnel and 15,000 dependents. It could cost the U.S. $500 million...
...find enough adults to volunteer as Scout workers. In Philadelphia, confronted by parental apathy, an organizer learned that neighborhood youths had been swiping tools off Bell Telephone trucks. He staked out the company garage, caught several of them in the act, and made them the nucleus of a new troop...