Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk and emitted such platitudes as "What you have just seen . . . [affects] the safety of our communities and the well-being of our homes and our families." He asked for preparation at home to guarantee "assurance that the American people are prepared to withstand any assault. "This," he added, with bitter, unconscious humor, "is no simple thing...
Problem No. 2 was Giap's "mole-man" infantry. Every night the Communists dug and tunneled up to the French wire, loosening ground so that they could quickly dig assault trenches when the signal came to go in; they neatly infiltrated between the fortress' HQ and its southern strong point. Five times last week the French sent out tanks and infantry to ease the throttlehold; they killed 260 Communists and captured 14. At week's end the French launched a strong counterattack, claimed 1,000 casualties. But every night the Red moles came back...
...final assault on the record books for the regular season, sophomore Dave Hawkins will lead a delegation of five Crimson swimmers to New Haven for the National Amateur Athletic Union meet at the Yale pool this weekend...
Each shell tells the defenders that Gen eral Giap is not through. Day & night, Communist soldiers squirm out of the jungle across the ground before the fortress to dig foxholes and assault trenches. Each time a sentry gazes out beneath a star shell, the Red shadows and the chink chink of digging seems to come closer. Outnumbered three to one, the defenders of Dienbienphu wait calmly this week for the assault they believe is sure to come...
Secure for a while at least with a small parliamentary majority, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba last week announced that he was launching a head-on assault against the nation's No. I problem-the Italian Communist Party, which is the largest, richest and most powerful in the West. The trackdown was good news to Italy's antiCommunists, many of whom have felt such a move to be long overdue. It was good news for U.S. strategists, for whom the Italian party has lately loomed as. a real threat to NATO, EDC and the basic free-world...