Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hostages to Power. To such arguments, the Administration replies that its object is not to bomb North Viet Nam back "to the Stone Age," as retired Air Force General Curtis Le-May once proposed. "There is no doubt that air power could destroy North Viet Nam if it were in our interests," said Brown. "Our Government does not believe that it would be." The U.S. has purposely avoided attacking certain targets because they are too close to urban residential areas, would cause suffering among the civilian population or would not significantly affect the enemy's short-term ability...
...seem groovy in Life but it's not that simple in reality. "Yesterday," recalls Larry, "I was walking down the street in these pants. I had on boots that came to my knees and a green Tom Jones shirt. Everyone looked at me like I was a bomb or something. It used to bother me. These people out here don't accept anything they don't know. Like, they come in here and say, 'Do you really wear those clothes?' I tell them, 'No, I wear a grey flannel suit and then I change when I get into the store...
...police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon arrested four Syrian terrorists who, according to the Jordanian army, were sent across the border to bomb government buildings, bridges and military telephone lines. It was the first such Arab terrorism reported against Jordan itself...
Huge B-52's from the Wright Field SAC base in Ohio used to make practice bomb runs over one of the dormitories of near-by Antioch College. Plane after plane came roaring over the target dormitory, opened their empty bomb bays, and disappeared over the trees...
...charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also set off a bomb in a utility shed only 200 yards from the Danang beach bungalow of Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt. The general was unharmed...