Word: ammo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese targets, Kong Le hopes at least for U.S. air strikes to cut Route 7 behind the Pathet Lao. "If the bridges on Route 7 were cut for even a little while," he says, "the Pathet Lao could not hold their positions. That road provides everything they need-food, ammo, men, even the Viet Minh...
...slum, and gun-butted the male population into labor battalions. In a fury the Neapolitan canaglia, known for a thousand years as the scum of the earth, rose in heroic rebellion against allies they had always loathed. Out of manholes, cellars, caves and sewers crammed with smuggled guns and ammo they came storming, and in four historic days of blood and glory rang a tocsin that awoke the Underground from Naples to the Alps...
...year's neatest budgetary trick was pulled off last week by Katanga's Prestidigitator Moise Tshombe, who badly wanted $40 million in Katangan currency to pay off old Congo war debts and keep his army in ammo. He merely closed all of Katanga's banks for the week, skimmed 5% off the top of all bank accounts, and then, to make sure no one was left out, gave landlords the choice of paying 50% of all rent revenue for the past six months or 5% of the total value of their property...
...filming proceeded last week in the Florida Keys on Warner Brothers' PT 109, Navy landing craft maneuvered around Munson Key and 20-mm. U.S.N. ammunition pah-pah-pahed in the air. But Warner Brothers was paying for all the ammo and all the fuel for the ships. Moreover, where they once might have dragged old PT boats out of mothballs, the Navy refused. No PTs are on active service, so Warner Brothers had to build...
...Buried Ammo. So far, the Minutemen have attracted mostly middle-class people with an average age of about 30. Some saw duty as Army Rangers or in the O.S.S.; a handful are on active military service now. Although some Minutemen belong to the way-right John Birch Society, the two organizations do not see eye to eye. Leader DePugh talked with Birch Founder Robert Welch, now recalls: "I did not find him impressive. He didn't think much of our program either. He doesn't even think the Russians have atomic weapons...