Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...chiefs are under attack on a third front as well. Reduction of U.S. military commitments abroad is bound to alter their policymaking role and lessen their importance. Nor is a study, now being conducted by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, likely to increase their significance. Surveying the operations of the entire Department of Defense, the panelists are concerned about whether the chiefs can meet almost daily on policy matters and still run their services. The panel may recommend that the chiefs be relieved of one of their jobs...
...Party, which polled more than a million votes in one recent election, will provide an outlet for voters who support President Nixon's Viet Nam policies. The Conservative senatorial candidate is James L. Buckley, familial and philosophical brother of Editor and Columnist William Buckley. Ottinger, however, plans to attack Goodell for his record as r conservative upstate Congressman in the days before he gained prominence as a leading Republican critic of the President...
...diplomats feared that the warplane announcement, even if it were accompanied by a peace initiative, would imperil the chances for a Middle East solution. American diplomats in Arab countries warned that anti-American riots would ensue that might serve as a pretext for Arab guerrillas to again attack, and perhaps even topple, King Hussein's shaky government in Jordan...
...city of rumors. One day hundreds-or is it thousands?-of Communists are said to be already in the capital, waiting for the word to rise up. On the next the enemy is just outside the city. One day his plans are said to be an all-out attack. But there is also a report that his main aim is to isolate the city, cut off all its roads and strangle it. What is going...
...back-the lucky ones-to a lawn-edged pool at the stately, decaying Royal Hotel. Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers). All quiet at Kompong Speu, but the city is deserted and still smoldering from a Communist mortar attack that morning. "You should have seen this one old lady," says a reporter. "She had a line of bullets up her leg. The goddam wounds were black with flies, and she was just lying there and not saying a word. The town is in ruins...