Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charges against John Perdew '64 of "assault with attempt to murder" a policeman were dropped this week in Americus, Georgia...
...time the troops arrived, the main Viet Cong force had long since departed. Villagers who survived the harsh pre-assault bombardment by government forces shakily reported that the Communists had pulled out three days earlier. A few, at least, stuck around, as the South Vietnamese learned to their dismay later in the week. Recombing a maze of tunnels in Boi Loi forest, army patrols suddenly found themselves under accurate but sporadic machine-gun fire. Ten Vietnamese soldiers died, and a helicopter carrying wounded away was knocked down, killing eleven more. History's hugest helicopter operation netted only two confirmed...
...make either hard or soft, transparent or opaque, thick or thin simply by jiggering its ion content; it will be used in such varied products as packaging film, pipes, costume jewelry. >Embarked on an expansion project to enlarge its eight big textile plants and to launch a full-scale assault on foreign markets, where Du Pont is building seven new factories to take advantage of profits and growth rates generally twice as high as those...
Chafee himself, a product of Providence Country Day School and Deerfield Academy, left Yale at 19 during his sophomore year, enlisted in the Marines and landed with assault troops on Guadalcanal. Back in the U.S., he finished Yale and Harvard Law. In 1951 he was recalled to the Marines and captained a rifle company in Korea. In 1952 he got his baptism by fire in the political wars as a campaign aide to unsuccessful Providence Mayoralty Candidate Christopher Del Sesto. In 1956 he struck out on his own, was elected to the state house of representatives, and two years later...
More Punch. The turning point came in August, when a loyalist garrison drove back a major rebel assault on Bukavu after three bloody days of street fighting, giving Tshombe's dispirited army its first real victory. Even more important, however, were 450 white mercenaries-mostly South Africans, Rhodesians and Belgians-recruited by Tshombe to give his army more punch...