Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...superior, Ohio Adjutant General Sylvester Del Corso, at first sought refuge in a flimsy excuse for uncontrolled gunfire. They said that their men had been fired upon by a sniper. By the end of the week, even Del Corso conceded that there was no evidence of any such attack...
...Premier Aleksei Kosygin called the first press conference held by a Kremlin leader in Moscow since Nikita Khrushchev's famous U-2 spy-plane disclosure in 1960. Though he made no suggestion of direct Soviet involvement in Indochina, Kosygin harshly upbraided the U.S. and launched the sharpest personal attack on Nixon to date by a Russian leader. The Soviet Premier, whose appearance was carried live on Russian television, charged that the widening of the war raised serious questions. "What is the value of international agreements, which the United States is or intends to be a party to," Kosygin asked...
...Communist units, the crack 95C Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army, which has made life miserable for the allies in War Zone C in Tay Ninh province. Base Area 354 has also served as headquarters for the NVA's 9th Division, which has led every major attack on the Saigon area in recent years and is considered by U.S. officers to be the best of the Communist divisions. Bold Lancer, which involved a brigade of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division, fell behind schedule almost immediately. When the troops arrived at the Cambodian town of Tasuos, an enemy rest...
Despite the apparent menace, however, there are no hard signs yet that the Communists really intend to attack the capital. Moreover, their successes are at least partly illusory. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces have been operating in small bands, occupying a town or blocking a road for a few days, then disappearing when challenged by sizable force. Still, Lon Nol is taking no chances...
...document was not due to expire until 1983. The most important change was the formalizing of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which proclaims Moscow's right to "defend" any member of the Warsaw Pact against "military or revanchist forces." The treaty also calls for mutual military assistance in case of attack, "no matter what state or group of states" is involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed on all the East-bloc countries, would apparently obligate those countries to aid Russia in case of a Sino-Soviet war. Some bloc members...