Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...would expect" Saigon's troops to withdraw at the same time U.S. forces do, the President had also said: "When we come out, our logistical and air support will also come out." However, there are reports that the next installment of the Cambodian venture will be sustained combat by South Vietnamese forces, supported by Thailand and the U.S. (see THE WORLD...
Nonetheless, there is also what Harvard Historian James Thomson Jr. calls "the effectiveness trap." Many officials decide to stay in office to combat presidential policies−only to wake up one day and discover that they have had no tangible effect whatsoever. In the Johnson Administration, for example, Under Secretary of State George Ball came to be accepted as the house dove, the devil's advocate who could be counted upon to present all the opposing arguments to the prevailing course on the war. While Ball presented his case forcefully, his counsel was more often than not discounted even...
...electronic snooping devices have so far uncovered evidence of missile sites along the canal. Moreover, there are indications that the Russians are having difficulties with the SA-3s that have already been placed in position in the rear; they are intricate devices that have never been fired in combat, and there are signs that the Soviets have had difficulty calibrating them properly...
...Cambodia's broad flatlands, ARVN commanders could wage a conventional, European-style war of maneuver, using textbook tactics that the Communists chose not to test in determined combat. Only four days after Nine Dragons began, ARVN General Ngo Dzu's armored columns had effortlessly swept light Viet Cong forces from the towns of Takeo and Kompong Trach and the key ports of Kep and Kampot. Equally facile was ARVN Task Force 318's high-speed dash 75 miles down Highway 1 toward Phnom-Penh. TIME Correspondent John Mulliken joined General Tri as he directed the drive alternately...
...decreed early this month by the Federal Reserve Board, immediately increased the purchasing power of stock buyers-but it bucked up the market for only a few days. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's promise last week that no U.S. troops would be involved in ground combat in Viet Nam after June 1971 is the sort of thing that a year ago might have stimulated dovish Wall Street into a month-long rally. Early last week, it could not push prices up for so long as two hours...