Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree with the position President Nixon took on the invasion of South Viet Nam by the North Vietnamese. There was no other decision to be made but to bomb the Hanoi-Haiphong area instead of the U.S. sending troops to push them back into North Viet...
...TIME quotes Americans in Viet Nam as saying, "If things get too bad, we'll just bomb the hell out of them," then labels as "impassioned overreaction" Anthony Lewis' statement that "the U.S. is the most dangerous and destructive power in the world...
...prolonged demonstration of the limits of U.S. power in a restrictive situation. And they cannot help but be apprehensive when so much American naval and air power is concentrated in a far corner of the Pacific, leaving other areas weakened. The handful of remaining hawks who want to bomb Hanoi into dust pose no political threat to the President. And the Democrats who oppose his re-election could only applaud a lowering of U.S. sights in Viet Nam; it is what they advocate...
Hanoians are not awed by the giant eight-engine B-52s with their 30 tons of bombs. People who spent several years in the vicinity of Vinh Linh, near the 17th parallel, where B-52s were operating practically every day, explain to us: "Of course, if you're just underneath, you haven't much of a chance. But when you get used to them, you know how not to be underneath. Just look at Quang Tri. With their thousands of tons of bombs, they didn't stop our troops." And they add matter-of-factly...
...leader. "Jesus, if they hadn't cast it from a geriatric ward we'd have had half a chance." As it was the film got mired in a morass of Hollywoodism. "But I got to meet Quinn, who is a real original and I admire Kramer though our bomb was of the multi-megaton variety...