Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev's flat declaration that Communism will seek to expand through nasty little undeclared "wars of national liberation." Explains Defense Secretary Robert McNamara: "These wars are often not wars at all. In these conflicts, the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action. Their military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush and the raid. Their political tactics are terror, extortion and assassination. We must help the people of threatened nations to resist these tactics...
...That Twilight Zone. To this end, the U.S. is so stressing guerrilla training for itself and its Allies that a top Army general recently warned: "If you read everything on the subject and listen to some of our military, you might easily begin to think all our armed forces will soon be going around with knives in their teeth." Such is the pace of the effort that for once the reality has outraced the rhetoric. The services have not even agreed on what to call this kind of fighting. To the Army, it is "special warfare," and its guerrilla experts...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A children's toy designer (Pat Hingle), himself more child than adult, finds a way to return to the past in "The Incredible World of Horace Ford...
...There is not a single Audimeter in the entire Rocky Mountain time zone (pop. approximately 7,000,000, including Denver, Albuquerque, and Salt Lake City). Nielsen argued that it did not matter, since Rocky Mountain opinions would not be different enough to make a significant change in the ratings...
...since escaped to West Berlin. Piecing these fragments together reveals a shadowy plot. But in the process of finding out what happens, the reader discovers that he has been half tricked, half lured by Author Johnson into immersing himself in what it is like to live in the East zone...