Word: antiaircraft
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...scratched "1962" in the setting concrete. Choppers worked overtime ferrying in explosives as the allies systematically explored-and then destroyed-the labyrinth. Among its contents: four truckloads of enemy maps, documents and training pamphlets, a typewriter, tons of rice, stacks of still cosmolined .50-cal. machine guns rigged with antiaircraft sights, and even Western pinup pictures. So extensive was the haul that Saigon suspected it might have captured the Viet Cong headquarters of the whole capital region. Moreover, some of the tunnels stretched away toward the Cambodian border, conceivably could subway whole regiments toward Saigon...
...Prince has gradually become more and more dependent on the Red Chinese, who are playing the role of the friendly undertaker. Eventually they hope to bury Sihanouk. Meanwhile, they can afford to help him, equipping 20,000 members of the Cambodian infantry, also promising some antiaircraft guns, patrol boats and planes. Americans at the border? Let them come, Sihanouk blusters...
...port city of Haiphong, they were mere minutes from the target: the Uong Bi power plant, newest and most modern in all North Viet Nam, supplying 33% of Haiphong's electricity and 25% of Hanoi's. Low cloud cover and a deadly hail of antiaircraft fire made the mission as hairy as any carried out over the North so far. But down went thousands of rockets and 14 tons of bombs. When the smoke cleared, Uong Bi was destroyed, and much of the Hanoi-Haiphong "red envelope" of industry was blacked out. It was the first time...
SHOOTOUT, by contrast, means flying straight down into heavy antiaircraft fire...
...group of soldiers, who scrambled for cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion was such that antiaircraft guns were pumping shells into the sky as searchlights crisscrossed futilely for enemy planes...