Word: ambush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam in half from the Cambodian border to the South China Sea. His technique was a carbon copy of past successes at the camps of Due Co near Pleiku and Dong Xoai, northeast of Saigon, earlier in the year: to attack an isolated camp and then ambush the South Vietnamese force charging to the camp's rescue...
Without checking with anyone else in the room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...
...when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon and Viet Cong guerrillas waiting in ambush shot him as he tried to escape...
...Happy Valley" of Viet Nam's Central Highlands, the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) once again came to grips with the elusive Viet Cong-this time a battalion that ran and fought for four days. Operation Crazy Horse was triggered when four Reds walked into an ambush, and documents on their bodies told of an impending Viet Cong attack on the Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar...
...There is an end to everyone's patience, even ours," steamed Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "In the past few years, the Saudis have trained Yemenis to enter Yemen and ambush Egyptians. We left Saudi Arabia alone. But today our policy is different. If aggression is carried out in Yemen, or if there is infiltration into her territory from Saudi Arabia, then we shall strike at the bases of that aggression and occupy them...