Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last month there was not even a law against desertion. Now the Ky government has decreed that a deserter will be sentenced to five years in a labor battalion attached to a combat unit. A second offense will mean ten years, and a third death. Advance warning of the decree began last April, and the regular-army desertion rate has already begun to drop, from 24 per 1,000 men in March to twelve by the end of July. Moreover, many classified as deserters in the past had simply gone home to join the army unit closest...
...accident happened when the commander of one surrounded unit radioed for air strikes to help out against the Reds. To guide the airmen to their targets, he ordered smoke rockets fired onto V.C. positions, outlined his own with colored smoke grenades. Despite the precautions, two Air Force F-100s swooping in to the rescue dropped their napalm canisters right on the U.S. lines. When the smoke cleared, many of the American troops lay writhing on the seared ground. Others ran screaming from their positions with their clothing afire...
...January, Thai border police fought a gun duel with 57 Communist terrorists. In July, a Thai army unit, sweeping the region's Route 5, reported killing 18 guerrillas and arresting 140 suspects. A few weeks later, a Thai-Malay patrol moving in Land Rovers through a jungle gorge in southern Thailand's Betong district was ambushed, and ten of its 15 members killed. The attack shocked both Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur into action. Fortnight ago, Malaysian Home Minister Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister Dawee Chullasapaya sat down in Bangkok...
...members had served their terms and were plotting more mischief. One group specialized in making bombs. Another in power-station sabotage. Another in arms smuggling. After years of planning, a new assassination plot was arranged for July 1965, during the regime's 13th anniversary celebrations. One unit was supposed to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If that failed, another would bomb a train he was to ride. Still another group stood ready to gun him down on his way home...
There's little risk of rent-skipping at South Bay, a $3,000,000, 248-unit complex housing 500 single stewardesses, doctors, teachers, engineers, secretaries and salesmen. Not only must applicants fight their way up through South Bay's long waiting list but, once in, they simply do not want to leave-even though they must pay rents from $125 for an efficiency to $260 for a two-bedroom pad. These rates are from $50 to $100 higher than those in comparable apartment houses, which are suffering an average vacancy rate of 15%, but South Bay is full...