Word: ak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lost an eye during his few brief months of fighting in Laos. A rice farmer's son, he was drafted out of a small North Vietnamese hamlet about two years ago, even though he was so frail that he was allowed to carry only 80 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, rather than the usual 200. After hurried training-eight weeks instead of the usual six months-he was marched south and told that he was going to fight in a "great war." Last April his unit crossed into Laos on Route 559-the Ho Chi Minh trail-and moved...
...nurse revealed that patients from eleven different civilian bombing incidents-many involving multiple deaths-were recovering in two of the hospital's largest wards. To be sure, the bombing victims represent only part of the war casualties. Others are suffering from mortar wounds, Communist-fired B40 rockets and AK-47 rifles; some do not know what hit them...
...high statue of Chairman Mao dominates the entrance to the base where we are waved in by a P.L. A. traffic policeman snapping green and red flags in his hands. Near by the troops line up; they practice firing their AK-47 automatic rifles and butt each other with rubber-tipped bayonets shouting "Heighten vigilance to our motherland...
...divisions are believed to have slipped across the Cambodian border into the dense jungles northwest of Saigon; U.S. intelligence sources believe that the Communist troops are prepared to launch attacks on two hours' notice. At a checkpoint outside the capital last week, a load of Communist AK-47 assault rifles was discovered in a civilian truck...
Since 1966, there have been periodic reports-few of them confirmed-of G.I. defectors in Viet Nam. In 1968 an American reconnaissance patrol happened on a Viet Cong squad that was led by a sandy-haired American who wore a red sash and carried a Communist AK-47 assault rifle; killed in the subsequent shootout, the American was identified as a Marine deserter. The latest sighting of a suspected defector occurred just three weeks ago near Kontum: villagers reported a visit by a Viet Cong patrol that included one very tall man who appeared to be a black...