Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John P. Hess, adjutant of Harvard's Army ROTC unit, said that this decision is "apparently in the spirit of the new draft ruling...
...visited the hospital at Quang Ngai and went through it in some detail with a doctor working with the Quaker unit. There was a standard medical ward which perhaps had an increase in the standard diseases of the area, malaria, diphtheria, cholera, plague had broken out in the region. And the other things that you are wont to find in this part of the world. But when we went beyond the medical ward into the severe injury ward, you saw the full horror of the war itself...
There is no indication, however, that Westmoreland's reports to the White House have been less exuberant than his public pronouncements. Presumably, he was misled by his intelligence unit. Nearly all military experts agree Westmoreland has underestimated Communist strength-or overestimated the effectiveness of Viet Nam's regular army and paramilitary units. His own command admits the strength of the enemy Tet offensive came as a shock...
...only large-size enemy unit still fighting, some 400 men, held its ground near the Saigon race track. Although General Westmoreland had at first acceded to South Vietnamese wishes to clear the city with ARVN troops, by week's end U.S. help was clearly needed; soldiers of the U.S. 199th Infantry Brigade were helilifted onto the racetrack turf to join the battle...
...Gaulle opened the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, last week, ABC-TV pulled off a display of space-age electronic wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic, picked...