Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranging, grinding intensity of the U.S.'s continuing campaign against an enemy doing his best to avoid battle. Last week U.S. units were out hunting in force along the length and breadth of South Viet Nam-most notably the marines, who launched a major multi-battalion assault near Quang Ngai on a suspected enemy concentration...
...Direct Assault. "Put away all the childish divisive things," the President commanded an audience of 6,500. "I do not think that those men who are out there fighting for us tonight think we should enjoy the luxury of fighting each other back home." In a direct assault on those of his congressional critics who are up for reelection, he urged voters to "read carefully the statements of every public official and of every candidate for every office. Ask yourselves, 'Is he helping the cause of his country, or is he advancing the cause of himself? Is he trying...
Spreading the Word. For their part, Fulbright and his antiwar coterie in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continued their assault on the Administration. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, making his eighth appearance before the committee this year, proceeded to outline-in extensive detail-the legal basis for the U.S. commitment in South Viet Nam. The Secretary's discourse ended in a hot-tempered exchange among Democratic members of the committee...
Bucharest lay stunned under the sticky assault of an 85° heat wave. Couples lounged inertly in the lilac-scented shade of the parks along Boulevard Magheru, sipped raspberry soda out of communal glasses, or took in the desultory lake breeze at the Pescarus Restaurant. Then, with an electric crackle, loudspeakers began to blare, and a tingle ran through the crowd...
Swooping in from north, south and west, the heliborne Americans hammered the Reds down onto an anvil of South Vietnamese motorized troops. One battalion was run to ground near the village of Tham Son, ten miles north of Bong Son. Red machine guns forced back an assault by troopers of one Air Cav battalion. The Americans dug in behind 2-ft. paddy walls and called for air strikes. Flights of fighter-bombers screeched in with napalm followed by bombs to spread the flaming jellied gasoline. Toll: 146 dead Reds...