Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket and mortar assault against Can Tho, largest city in the Delta, killing 46 and wounding 268, many of them civilians...
That first bold assault began at 11:30 on the morning of June 9. Short hours after tanks and troopers raced north from their victory on the west bank of the Jordan, an Israeli armored brigade was ready to lash out from a point just north of the kibbutz of Kfar Szold (see map) and grind up into the forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab...
Syrian position. That was Sir-a-Dib, which stands atop a buried pipeline built to carry crude oil from Saudi Arabian wells to Lebanese ports. It was 3 p.m., and only half the original 35 Sherman tanks that started the assault were still moving...
...made it to the summit plunged into the tunnels to hunt down the defenders. At one point, an Israeli and a Syrian officer came face to face. The Israeli pulled the trigger of his Uzzi submachine gun. It was empty. The Syrian jerked the trigger on his Soviet assault rifle. It, too, was empty. With that, the Israeli clubbed the Syrian down with his Uzzi...
...sharpest corporate skirmishes in memory swirled around Milwaukee last week, as Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. found itself under heavy assault. The battle was joined by James Joseph Ling, 44, chairman of Dallas-based Ling-Temco-Vought, who during a nine-day fight for control of the company had eventually made a tender offer valued at $560 million-one of the biggest ever. But by week's end, staid Allis-Chalmers, which is the area's biggest employer, had delivered L-T-V its first defeat-however temporary-in Ling's long takeover history...