Word: assaulted
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...strategy of the Communist fighting, the two offensives so far have proved very different in means, targets and goals. The 1968 push was a total, countrywide assault, a general offensive involving nearly every ground trooper that North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap could muster. By contrast, most of the darts on this year's board were the result not of ground attack but of "indirect fire"-shooting and shelling from safely remote points. Almost nowhere did Hanoi commit troops in more than company strength. Moreover, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong concentrated attacks on military rather...
South Viet Nam's civilians have fared far better this year. Despite the occasional shelling of cities, the ordinary life in the country continues almost normally. Communications and roads are largely unimpaired, and the vital pacification effort-dealt a heavy blow in last year's assault-is unaffected in 36 of the country's 44 provinces. Saigon, which became an urban battlefield in 1968, has so far felt the offensive's blows only in the form of rocket salvos. There are no new curfew restrictions, no hoarding, no staggering price increases. Acts of terrorism, while still...
...assume there is a right to be secure in person and property," Clark said. "But what security is there in the getto?" While about 14 per cent of America's people are black, Clark said, some 62 per cent of murder victims and 64 per cent of assault victims are black...
Just south of the Demilitarized Zone, assault troops hit a U.S. Marine fire base under cover of an intense mortar barrage. The attackers were led by sappers carrying explosives on their backs, the detonator cords wrapped around their chests. In vicious hand-to-hand fighting, in which more than two-thirds of the defenders became casualties, one Marine killed five attackers with his knife; another bludgeoned a Communist infantryman to death with a grenade. Some of the enemy sappers blew themselves up with the explosives they were carrying...
...about 50 sappers managed to sneak through ten defensive rings of wire, then sprinted down a flight line and destroyed nine helicopters with satchel charges. Only a few of the attackers carried rifles; the survivors later explained that they had left their valuable weapons behind before going into the assault-in the knowledge that they would not survive the mission...