Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maxwell Taylor, just back from a fact-finding tour of South Viet Nam, conferred at the White House with President John Kennedy on what steps the U.S. should take to shore up President Diem's government. Kennedy still opposes sending U.S. combat troops, but may agree to the dispatch of 1) U.S. Army engineers to repair the flood damage, 2) logistics experts to improve the inefficient supply system, 3) more anti-guerrilla trainers, and 4) helicopters to give government troops greater mobility in the nightmare terrain...
...Dinh Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South Viet Nam regulars and, if necessary, to fight...
...year-old Hungarian-born scientist, who was in New York yesterday to receive an award from the Deafness Research Foundation, was surprised by the news. "I?" he exclaimed, after seeing the Associated Press dispatch from Sweden...
...That Fits. Charleston's News & Courier styles itself SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOST OUTSPOKEN NEWSPAPER. The staunchly segregationist Columbus Commercial Dispatch hails itself as MISSISSIPPI'S MOST PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. Connecticut's 197-year-old Hartford Courant calls itself the OLDEST NEWSPAPER OF CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION IN AMERICA. Despite saturation news coverage by TV and radio, many dailies idly boast that they are FIRST WITH THE NEWS...
...Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother reveals he is alive in the famed recognition scene. Up to this point, Electra has been a kind of female Hamlet except that her griefs lie all without. After this point, she and Orestes dispatch Clytemnestra and Aegisthus with all the aplomb of Chicago gangsters...