Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the fact that the U.S. has long been hitting every means of transport from truck to barge in the North, the decision to bomb major sources of the fuel on which they depend is a compelling, consistent progression. In any case, as Vice President Hubert Humphrey observed last week, even though "there will be friends who disagree with us, it is our men who are there. It is our men who are facing Communist bullets...
Weaving in from different headings and altitudes to outfox the ground gunners, the attacking jets approached at medium height, climbed abruptly, then dive-bombed their targets, plunging through sheets of bullets and shrapnel. "As we approached, I knew we had a go," said Hopkins. "The weather was beautiful, but the sky was filled with automatic-weapons fire and flak. I laid my bombs down the center of the area occupying the storage buildings and pump houses." Hopkins' co-leader, Major James H. Kasler, 40, of Indianapolis, recalls: "The whole place was going up. Every bomb that went...
With that, "Balaguer launched into the first public details of his program to rebuild the tired, war-shattered nation. "The first step in this direction," he said, "must consist of an austerity policy which will act not as a bomb, but as a scalpel upon the ulcers that must be cut out in cold blood." The ulcers - inflation, corruption, political favoritism and inefficiency - would not disappear easily, Balaguer warned, and his surgery would be "painful...
...recent bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong did more than pour burning oil on the troubled waters of Vietnam. The decision to bomb the oil depots close to civilian centers sparked a domestic and international debate with highly explosive overtones...
Diplomatically, Klein saw the decision to drop the bomb as a wrong one. He cited the lesson of the Korean War where we leveled the North without moving our opponents any nearer to the peace table. As for the timing of the escalation, Klein speculated that it was a domestic move on Johnson's behalf, and that the President feels this is the "tidy war" the Gallup Polls favor...