Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1964, the U.S. was supporting and directing a number of covert operations: air strikes over Laos by CIA-hired civilian pilots and by Thai flyers, South Vietnamese harassment raids (Operation 34A) along the North Viet Nam coast, and U-2 reconnaissance flights over the North. Announced U.S. retaliatory air strikes against the North started in August 1964. A sustained air campaign (Rolling Thunder) was ordered to assault the North in February, 1965. The first U.S. ground troops landed in force in South Viet Nam during the spring of 1965. By the end of the year, 184,000 U.S. troops...
...September 1964, proposed actions that "should be likely at some point to provoke a military response [and] the provoked response should be likely to provide good ground for us to escalate if we wished." He suggested that the downing of any U.S. reconnaissance plane over the North by U-2 aircraft would be an appropriate incident...
Litmus Test. Once launched, however, the offensive is not certain of success. The Communist position has its weaknesses. Hanoi's Laotian and Cambodian holdings are very sparsely populated. In South Viet Nam the Communists hold nothing but such desolate regions as portions of the U Minh Forest and the A Shau Valley. The heavily populated and strategically important Mekong Delta and the eleven provinces around Saigon face no substantial military danger. While ARVN troops have performed disappointingly in some recent battles in Cambodia and Laos, the litmus test of the Vietnamization program is how they will defend themselves inside...
...great prestige, could bring together. Regular Columnists James Reston, C.L. Sulzberger, Russell Baker and Tom Wicker share the space with outside contributors, who differ widely in political philosophy (from New Leftist Herbert Marcuse to Right Wing Libertarian Murray Rothbard) and in personality (from Burma's ascetic rebel U Nu to baseball's syntax-smashing Casey Stengel...
...elegant critique of the American Corporate State means little if you follow it up by saying that everything will be okay because, "No one can take himself altogether seriously in bell-bottoms." And moral outrage-however correct-summoned up upon convenience for its publicity value produces atrocities like the U. S. Government's current prosecution of the son of a blue-collar family for murdering civilians in Vietnam...