Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private conversations, Schoenman presents another face. He modulates his voice carefully, ticking off the effects of U.S. anti-personnel weapons in a professorial, almost bored tone: "the guava bomb ... steel slivers, each one kills at 150 yards. The fields are pockmarked." Speaking from a profile position, Schoenman attempts to mesmerize the listener. He turns his hands over gracefully, or twists his head slightly to emphasize a point. Only furtive glances from his dark eyes to assess the impression he is making jar the effect...
ASPIRITUAL-TYPE piece that the Fish do runs in the same vein. "Please don't drop that H-bomb on me, drop it on yourself," Joe pleads, and then, as if to say that the only way to fight the destruction and evil and hideousness of War is to turn on, the group begins immediately to play the beautiful "Thought Dream...
...just a university freshman who can't understand President Johnson's reasoning. What kind of joke is this war? A war where you don't bomb the enemy's capital but they take over our embassy in downtown Saigon? A war where you don't bomb the enemy's only supply harbor is idiotic...
...nervous G.I. should run across a South Vietnamese civilian carrying a copy of the map shown above, he could be forgiven the notion that he had collared a Viet Cong spy. Next to the bomb-burst symbols at each city, the map also has such suspicious and cryptic legends as "50 outlets, 14 trucks, five Americans, 70 Vietnamese." A plan for a coordinated attack on Allied bases? Not at all. The map shows distribution points used by the company that delivers TIME magazine to U.S. forces...
...heaviest damaged area, only rubble and fragments of walls mark the places where row upon row of one-story houses once stood. Patched up and painted, the U.S. embassy shows few scars from its dust-up with the Viet Cong, but many buildings elsewhere are pockmarked by bullets and bomb fragments...