Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans had known back in 1961 that the war would last so long and be so costly in U.S. lives and funds, they would have opposed U.S. involvement overwhelmingly-63% to 26%. Only 9% would accept a settlement of the war that meant an outright Communist takeover of South Viet Nam either immediately or in three to five years' time. But twice that number, 18%, would agree to ending the war by setting up a coalition government including Communists, even if such a settlement left the Viet Cong in position to dominate South Viet Nam eventually. More broadly...
...herself in moments of national crisis; then it was comforting to have so impassioned a lover as De Gaulle ready and willing to serve. But eleven years of calls to greatness are too much for a nation, or a woman. De Gaulle had even been warned. During World War II, when France had been humiliatingly crushed in a six-week Nazi blitzkrieg, De Gaulle almost single-handed kept the idea of France alive. Whenever Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin tried to shape the war without due consideration of France, they were met with De Gaulle's fierce obduracy. At war...
...Ulster counties that form Northern Ireland shuddered on the edge of civil war last week. Nearly every city and town was divided into two armed camps, as fanatic Protestants and rebellious Catholics faced each other down, ready to do street battle with stones, staves and worse. Skillful saboteurs triggered three explosions that cut Belfast's water supply in half. Post offices and a bus station were set aflame by fire bombs; police stations were stoned. Ten-year-olds trotted home from school with extracurricular instructions for making Molotov cocktails. More than 1,000 British soldiers moved into position throughout...
...WAR these days admits of many qualifications, including cold or hot, limited, shooting and phony. In a sense, all applied to the gunfire and shelling that raged between Arabs and Israelis across their so-called cease-fire lines last week. Continuing a duel that has been going on almost daily for three weeks, Egyptian and Israeli artillery traded fire over the Suez Canal. Egyptian army commandos, their faces covered with grease, crossed the canal in rubber rafts, killing three Israeli soldiers in patrol-sized firefights. Roaring into Jordan, retaliating Israeli jets blasted two Egyptian-manned underground radar stations...
...fortifications." The U.S. termed Egypt's step "retrogressive" and, along with Britain, appealed to both sides to respect the truce. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant gloomily said that "the cease-fire has become almost totally ineffective in the Suez Canal sector, and a virtual state of active war now exists there...