Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that happens, he added, the war may very well end without a single session of formal truce talks but with the "eventual dissolution" of the Viet Cong apparatus and an undeclared halt to guerrilla activities. Meanwhile the cause of peace can realistically be advanced only on the battlefield...
...once was a rare day when more than a handful of Viet Cong weapons was left on a battlefield, but of late the V.C. have become quite untidy: Operation Starlight netted 614 dead V.C. and 109 weapons. More recently, Vietnamese troops killed 34 of the enemy-and captured 34 weapons-on an operation. Government figures showing a 300% increase in the number of Viet Cong defecting under the "open arms" amnesty program may be exaggerated, but the curve is definitely...
While heavenly choirs compete with thunderous organ, all the significant moments of Michelangelo's ordeal are painstakingly recreated. His inspiration for the Sistine vault occurs on a mountain-top at sunrise in exquisitely detailed cumulus clouds. He rushes to a battlefield where Julius marvels at Michelangelo's preliminary sketches while enemy cannon balls redden the earth around them. "I planned a ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative...
...checked in with 28 dead Viet Cong, and the bombers picked off twelve more. Later, in one brief, fierce firefight, the marines killed 17 more Viet Cong and captured 21, suffering not a single U.S. casualty in the process. Marine Major General Lewis Walt flew into Batangan for a battlefield look, found himself "so proud of my marines I can hardly talk...
Visitors to Niagara Falls have reported garbage spilling over the brink. Gettysburg, Pa., has safeguarded much of the historic battlefield, but the surrounding area crawls with souvenir hawkers and motels. In the Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island remains one of the last areas where buffalo roam freely in the U.S.; now the state wants to use the island as an amusement area...