The Franciscans sent priests to the frontier to aid in the pacification effort.

It received a battle honor at Beirut in 1920 as part of the pacification efforts.

He did return to that country for a few months to research a report on the pacification effort.

Mr. D'Amato said that he now feels "very hopeful" that the changes being made "represent real movement and progress rather than just a pacification effort."

It is true that the successes of pacification efforts were too little recognized by the press, or by many of the military-minded officials in Washington.

But there were two separate chains of command for military and civilian pacification efforts, making it particularly difficult for the civilian-run pacification program to function.

In September 1969-the high point of the pacification effort in terms of total manpower-there were 7,601 advisors assigned to province and district pacification teams.

The moment of crisis seemed to have passed, and, by the end of March, allied forces that had been standing in readiness were returned to pacification efforts.

Offensive operations may be restricted to local pacification efforts around the cities and attacks against guerrilla supply efforts from Pakistan.

Regarding the effectiveness of the program in carrying out "pacification" efforts; the insurgents' numbers had indeed declined.