Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delayed Resolve. Though the decision had been reached days earlier, Johnson set 6 p.m. Saturday as the irreversible deadline. Most of Saturday, the President and his advisers were closeted in the White House discussing which targets to bomb, how hard to hit, when to start. Militarily, limited bombing of the North could have only limited results. Still, its renewal signified in a much broader sense that the U.S., having gone to extraordinary lengths to seek peace in Viet Nam, was now prepared to win the war for that unhappy country...
...initiated the latest truce, shattered it almost immediately. Communist guerrillas fired on a U.S. Marine platoon near Danang, killing two sergeants. A fierce battle between Reds and South Korean troops near Tuy Hoa resulted in 53 Communist dead. In a pre-dawn raid by terrorists, a 25-lb. bomb exploded outside a U.S. billet near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, killing a U.S. soldier...
...paraphernalia of modern technology that is crammed into the new Combat Operations Center (COC) of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). Buried deep inside Colorado's 9,565-ft. Cheyenne Mountain, protected against any predictable hazards -from enemy sabotage to a direct hit by a nuclear bomb-the nearly completed COC, opened for press inspection this week, is scheduled to go into full operation in April, replacing the present more vulnerable one located at Ent Air Force Base, 13 miles away...
...thing to get the ball, and another to move it. To beat the Browns, the Packers knew they would have to stop Jim Brown, put constant pressure on Cleveland Quarterback Frank Ryan so that he could not throw the "bomb" to Paul Warfield or Gary Collins. The first job fell to Packer Linebacker Ray Nitschke. "Brown was my big heat," Nitschke said afterward. "I keyed on him 85% of the time." The measure of his success was that in the crucial second half Brown gained a grand total of 9 yds. Ryan was the responsibility of the whole Packer line...
...supposedly invincible Bronx Bombers really did bomb out, and it wasn't so surprising in retrospect. And there would be just as little mystery tonight in McHugh Forum, where the Crimson really could beat the pollsters' pick for number one in the East...