Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong shelled Saigon and a dozen other cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles of the week erupted...
...Embassy, another close to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's residence. Numerous shells landed in the Chinese section, Cholon. But the main enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where Communist forces unsuccessfully attempted to follow up a mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded when five mortar rounds hit the Danang headquarters of Marine Commander Lieut. General Robert...
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Freshman football star Richie Szaro continued the Crimson's assault on the record book by surpassing the six-year-old javelin mark of 212'6" with a throw of 213'2". His performance would have been good enough to win many varsity competitions...
...doubt. There's speculation that today's the day for the Baker and/or Shaw four-minute mile. The two runners are scheduled to run both the mile and the half-mile, but Coach Bill McCurdy may decide to take them out of the shorter race for an all-out assault on four minutes...