Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials, in particular, felt that the U.S. was destroying more enemy supplies by concentrating its bombing on supply routes from the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel to the 19th parallel rather than by trying to bombard the entire North. Indeed, the U.S. flew nearly 700 more missions in April over the 21% of North Viet Nam's territory that is not yet proscribed than it did in March, when most of the country was fair game...
...aware of any increase in infiltration" since Johnson's March 31 order to curtail the bombing. But Dean Rusk, testifying on the foreign-aid bill before a House committee, said infiltration had increased. Indeed, some intelligence sources claim that 30,000 infiltrators poured into the South in April alone?a 2½-fold increase over the normal rate?and that their weapons were new, excellent and plentiful...
...road running down the valley center, Route 548, to six lanes, and built a brand-new road called 547A that branched off from another road, Route 547, and emerged from the valley aimed straight at the heart of Hue. Such passable weather as A Shau ever knows comes in April and May, and three weeks ago, under the tightest secrecy of any allied operation of the war, Operation Delaware was launched to punch into the Communists' craggy lair...
...officers armed with photographs and dossiers of the city's anti-Communist leaders and government officials. Working door to door like pollsters of death, the Communists during their 24-day occupation hunted down and systematically slaughtered their quarry, young and old, men and women, Vietnamese and foreigners (TIME, April 5). The grim magnitude of that brief reign of terror emerged in an official U.S. report released last week...
...first of Saturn's obvious troubles, the unexpected and early shutdown of two of the five J-2 engines powering the second stage (TIME, April 12), was traced to a fuel line that broke under the strain of liquid hydrogen flowing through it at approximately 100 m.p.h. The break set off a chain of events that lowered pressure in the engine, which automatically shut down. Because of an incorrectly wired circuit, the shutdown on the first engine sent a signal to another, perfectly operating engine, erroneously ordering it to shut down also...