Word: antiaircraft
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...encompasses Saigon. That area was rapidly becoming the main worry of the U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders. At Loc Ninh, a rural district capital 75 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, North Vietnamese troops routed the South Vietnamese defenders, organized "people's committees," and set up antiaircraft positions. Other enemy troops were moving, in regimental strength, to areas west, north and south of Saigon, which was braced for its first rocket attacks in two years...
...column drove south along the beaches of the Tonkin Gulf, despite a heavy barrage laid down by U.S. destroyers offshore. Taking advantage of heavy rains and low clouds, which limited air strikes, other units rolled down French-built Highway 1 aboard Soviet-built tanks and trucks towing antiaircraft or artillery pieces...
...flying weather was poor, air traffic heavy and hazardous, and there were rumors about the infiltration of SAM antiaircraft missiles south of the DMZ. Nevertheless, U.S. Air Force Captain Donald E. Waddel, 26, was elated as he walked away from his F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber. "It was unbelievable," he said. "I've never seen anything like it-columns of tanks, columns of trucks, even men marching along the road...
...Signal. Last week, for five straight days, U.S. fighter-bombers, directed from a command center at Udorn airbase in Thailand, braved poor weather and wicked antiaircraft fire to fly hundreds of sorties against missile sites, airfields, supply depots, staging areas, and other targets in North Viet Nam's southern panhandle. It was by far the longest and roughest of the more than 100 strikes, large and small, that American aircraft carried out on the North in 1971. With a tight news embargo temporarily in effect in Washington and Saigon, the few emerging details of the operation came from Hanoi...
...useful. The supposed agreement has afforded the White House a politically painless way of gradually erasing what it regards as an unwise, unilateral promise to lay off North Viet Nam. Since 1969, when the White House began citing the understanding to justify quick, small-scale strikes on North Vietnamese antiaircraft sites that had fired at U.S. reconnaissance planes, the "protective reaction" franchise has been steadily broadened. By now, it has been stretched to the point where it can be invoked in almost any circumstance. The President has said that if Hanoi should develop any "capacity to increase the level...