Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just a year ago, in the Central Highlands valley of la Drang near Cambodia, that infiltrated North Vietnamese regulars for the first time chose to engage a U.S. unit headon. The result was not only the war's bloodiest battle and a stunning defeat for the Communists, who suffered 2,000 dead, but the beginning of a new phase in the war. Since then, despite heavy bombing of the North and a steady buildup of U.S. troops to interdict the southward flow of troops, infiltration has continued unabated, providing the chief source of new Communist manpower to keep...
...federal court's first move last week was to disallow the legislature's right to select the Governor. The special three-judge panel followed the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote declaration of 1962 and its 1963 decision overturning Georgia's county-unit system of voting. State Attorney General Arthur Bolton thereupon announced that he would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Acting with unprecedented speed, the Supreme Court, even before it received formal notice of the appeal, set Nov. 30 as the date to hear arguments...
...will have 20 top lettermen returning from this year's team which its Sports Director, Arthur L. Dumphy, calls the best in 12 years. There will be only one new starter on the offensive unit that scored 102 points in winning its last three games...
...orthodox thinking that had shackled the Czech economy and held down the standard of living. For three hours, the group listened and questioned Sik as he expounded his theories and developed his plans for the future of his country. Before the lecture, Sik examined the transistorized simultaneous-translating unit TIME had provided and exclaimed: "Your American technology is marvelous...
...attempted Communist onslaught along the central coast. Most recently, Hanoi began massing for an invasion straight south across the demilitarized zone: some 8,800 U.S. Marines and four battalions of South Vietnamese troops are now in place to prevent it. Hanoi covets a victory over some isolated American unit for its psychological and propaganda value, but this hope has proved elusive. Already this year, the Communists have suffered 48,000 men killed in combat, probably twice that many wounded, some 8,000 captured and 10,000 defected...