Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This assault was the first North Vietnamese use of armor since early...
...Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the PRG delegation to the Paris peace talks, claimed yesterday that there are ten battalions of American infantry, artillery, and armor fighting inside Laos...
...experience. As I enter the payrolls of my chosen profession, am I to be forever plagued by this Harvard identity? Is it forever to come between me and a proper human relationship with those equally or even more gifted? Or have I become encased in a convenient suit of armor that will be very useful for protection against the infighting and backbiting for which academics are so notorious...
...artillery and no fewer than 200 tanks. One force, predominantly Cambodian, drove south from Phnom-Penh along Route 4, the key, 125-mile link with Kompong Som, Cambodia's one deepwater port and site of its only oil refinery. Another force, combining Cambodian infantry and South Vietnamese armor, pushed north from Kompong Som. The pincers closed on the rugged, heavily jungled Elephant Mountains, where 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars from the crack 101st Regiment had been blocking a 25-mile stretch of Route 4 since last November. Repeatedly, U.S. Phantoms and South Vietnamese A-37s pounded the mountain passes...
...being bulldozed. "They had become a health hazard," explains an Israeli officer. "They provided refuge for stray dogs, cats and fedayeen." Some Golan fields still carry red-triangle signs denoting Syrian minefields. Others are lush with wheat and cotton grown by Israeli kibbutzniks who ride in tractors with armor plating on the side...