Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northern provinces, where the Communist drive began, whole platoons of tanks dueled for the first time in this war. Farther south, in Binh Long province, where the main fighting flared, columns of troops and vehicles crawled along a sun-baked highway on their way to aid a garrison under siege by the Communist regiments and artillery of General Vo Nguyen Giap. "This battle is a very conventional one," said an American adviser, Colonel J. Ross Franklin. "Giap's battle plan could have come from a German, a Frenchman or an Englishman. They're leading with their infantry, supported...
...containing maps, charts, diagrams and equipment to be used on Cabora Bassa. The South Africans were furious. The South African engineering company withdrew its engineers and said "The Portuguese are incapable of protecting us." They requested and received more South African troops at Cabora Bassa to supplement the Portuguese garrison. And right now, today, Frelimo is within twenty miles of the construction site, and soon they will be able to begin shelling the dam. And then the Portuguese will send in more troops, and the situation will get very tough. But Frelimo is committed to the fact that that...
Holtzman will soon leave her job at the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison law firm in New York City and begin campaigning fulltime. She said she plans to talk to voters at subway stops, supermarkets, coffee klatches and in their homes...
Southern California's chances were dealt a serious blow yesterday when favored Trojan Edesel Garrison failed to qualify for Friday night's 440 dash. Garrison, who ran a 45.7 in Houston's Astrodome early in February, won his heat, but apparently misjudged his pace and wound up with a slow...
During the depression, Hutchinson managed and played on a hockey team he organized at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. "That's how I learned about the game," he said. "I played with the greats: George Owen--later a Bruins captain, and John Garrison--three times an Olympic star...