Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant, Romney has managed to disengage himself from the Administration at a time when popular support both for Johnson and the war are at alltime lows and when many Republicans have begun to have second thoughts about Viet Nam. He accomplished this without committing himself to firm positions on bombing the North, increasing U.S. troop levels, or any of the other hard questions about Viet Nam. He made critical sounds about the bombing, for instance, but said that he really did not disagree with House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, who advocates more intensive aerial warfare. "If there is going...
Aware that North Vietnamese regulars are concentrating troops in the A Shau valley 60 miles west of Danang, the U.S. sent B-52s to bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...
With the power of a one-megaton bomb, an earthquake shocked eastern Turkey last week, killing more than 100 people and injuring about 200. The quake centered in sparsely settled Tunceli and Erzincan provinces, 80 miles west of the Varto area, scene of a violent quake that killed 2,477 people last August. It was the second earthquake to sunder Turkey within five days; on July 22 about 100 people were killed and 300 injured in a series of shocks that struck 50 towns near Adapazari. Like previous Turkish quakes (see map), the latest disasters were located along the Anatolian...
...fortune out of lapel button slogans, a jovial, onetime Wall Street clerk who in 1940 started punching out, as he called it, "levity with brevity," produced 500 million buttons for cause carriers of all stripes ("Win with Willkie," "We Need Adlai Badly," along with such contemporary coinages as "Bomb Hanoi," "Make Love, Not War"), ever true to his own disk's boast: "I don't care who wins-my business is buttons"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Communist North. In scarcely more than five minutes, the Communists fired at least 50 122-mm. rockets, dropping them among the parked planes with pinpoint accuracy. Several Air Force 4-FC Phantoms and Marine F-8 fighter-bombers, caught fully fueled and with their bomb racks loaded, were blown high into the air by the explosions. One rocket crashed into an ammo dump, exploding the 500-and 750-lb. bombs in a giant fireball that was visible many miles away. Five base firemen were killed when a bomb went off on a burning Phantom...