Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their positions. Fighting flared in one part of the city and, when troops moved in with air support to damp it down, broke out in another area. Though the allies claimed 2,000 enemy dead in the city, the U.S. command was worried by the presence of a reserve unit of some 1,000 Viet Cong still lurking in Saigon and not yet committed to battle. Allied troops ringed the city to cut off their retreat...
Kenneth B. Frisof '68 said that although the lectures and seminars will be a series, "each unit will be self-contained so that interested students who are not enrolled can come to just a few and still benefit from them...
Last week the U.S. State Department sent an apology to Sihanouk, but at the same time took care to set the record straight. The allied unit involved had received heavy fire from a South Vietnamese village located in a border pocket and surrounded on nearly three sides by Cambodian territory. The allied troops attacked and then took the village, and the Viet Cong retreated into Cambodia, firing as they went. In the melee, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers penetrated some 75 yards into Cambodian territory. "It was not planned," said the State Department. "It occurred in the heat of battle...
Recently, officials caught a South Vietnamese army unit that was actually running hot goods to Saigon's black market in an ambulance, complete with blaring siren. Even the chief of staff of South Viet Nam's 5th Division was caught using government trucks to transport U.S. rice to areas where it could be sold to the Viet Cong...
...sluggish French economy. The government raised family allowances (which form a major part of the income of the poor) by 41%, boosted old-age pensions by $20 a year, and granted a 15% cut in personal income tax payments due Feb. 15. The Cabinet also ordered a 10,000-unit increase in construction of public housing this year, lowered interest rates on loans for construction, exports, farm and industrial equipment, and expanded tax incentives for private and public investments...