Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a growing confidence among the American military that if the attack does come at Khesanh, the 5000 Marines there will be able to hold it off. "The monsoon season's almost over," an American general said, "and the longer they wait the better our chances...
This is the worst of times, though, to try to get the public to pay attention to the nation's library needs, and there seems little alternative but to wait. For the present the "life of its own" Bryant sees for the ACLS report must be counted among the Vietnam war casualties...
...Stewart, Master of Lowell House, was "surprised" that only 18 or 19 seniors--fewer than last year--applied to live off-campus. He attributed the small number to hopes for deconversion in Lowell, currently the most crowded House. Rather than fill the quota with juniors, Stewart said, he would wait to see if seniors discontented with room assignments decided to move off at the last moment...
...recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact that they do not patrol means that Khe Sanh's original purpose-to interdict enemy infiltration-has been abandoned. As the tension builds, Marines manning...
...government insisted that the bride must leave the country, but Armed Forces Commander Alfredo Ovando promised that she could return to see her husband. "Let her go somewhere to wait for a while," Ovando told the French consul, "but not too far up north." By which he meant, of course, not to Cuba...