Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME too is guilty of the iniquitous deed. What a disappointment. Fallen prey to a deluding presentation of Notre Dame's true strength and greatness. A 795-line story with but 13 lines devoted to the fine work of the unsung heroes, Coach John Ray and his defensive unit. LAWRENCE D. SHUBNELL Notre Dame '63 Beltsville...
...ground, an honor guard of 1,000 Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard men had been assembled; one Marine company had been flown down from Danang for the visit in jungle fatigues and camouflaged steel helmets. Forty U.S. flags fluttered along with unit flags for such fighting outfits as the 1st Air Cav, the 1st Marine and the 101st Airborne Brigade...
Yale is hardly one of the League's dregs but today the Eli must face a Dartmouth team which is seething after last Saturday's 19-14 loss to Harvard. More importantly, Dartmouth is just too fast, even for the strong Yale defensive unit...
Googoos? That was the contemptuous label which American fighting men applied to an earlier enemy in Southeast Asia, a guerrilla army as fierce and feisty as any elite Viet Cong unit, and twice as bloodthirsty. The ambush of C Company took place on Sept. 28, 1901, on the Philippine island of Samar. The guerrillas were Filipino insurrectos inspired by General Emilio Aguinaldo, tough little "bolomen" whose razor-sharp cane knives and captured Krag-Jorgensen rifles killed 4,165 Americans before the three-year insurrection was quelled. In turn, some 20,000 Filipinos died in the struggle...
...presence of massive allied forces may have forced Ho Chi Minh to change his whole objective. Marine commanders now believe the Reds plan to concentrate their attack on a single American unit, overwhelm it, and if possible, wipe it out. The strike would be launched just before next month's U.S. elections, in hopes of convincing American voters that the price of the war is too high to continue. Besides, the Communists are in desperate need of a military victory. They have not had one for more than a year...