Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear the camp's perimeter of any remaining Communists, jumping into trenches built and stocked by the enemy during the eleven-week siege. A battalion of South Vietnamese rangers that had been landed inside Khe Sanh moved out to do the same, found enemy trench and bunker complexes extending right into their wire. After seizing the hills around the base, Pegasus and the men of Khe Sanh intended to try to roll the Communist forces back all the way to the Laotian border on the west and the Demilitarized Zone to the north, destroying as many as possible...
...Chinese are supplying the V.C. and North Vietnamese with a new 107mm. rocket that made its deadly debut during Tet. It fires a self-propelled warhead that can demolish a small build ing or blow up a bunker at a range of five miles. The 107 has about l½ times the striking power of a 75-mm. cannon, but it weighs-rocket, launcher, tripod and all-only about 200 lbs. v. 1,270 for a 75-mm.-pack howitzer...
...Goodbody & Co. took a trailblazing step toward the obvious remedy: more automation. It put into operation a new electronic system to speed the reporting of buy and sell orders from the floor of the Big Board and the American Exchange to its own back offices. Manufactured by the Bunker-Ramo Corp., the new equipment resembles a miniature television receiver mounted on a small adding machine. It enables floor clerks to send the details of every transaction to the offices at a rate of 110 characters per second, more than ten times faster than the tele typewriter it replaces...
Death in a Bunker. Five other missionaries huddled in an adjacent house for two days as fighting raged, then took refuge in a hastily dug trench. Finally, the Rev. Robert Ziemer, 49, a minister from Toledo, Ohio, left the trench to plead with surrounding Communist troops to hold their fire. They shot him in the head and chest. Next to die was Nurse Ruth Wilting, 42, of Cleveland, who had gone to the clinic 200 yds. away for medicines; the Communists opened fire as she returned, and she fell into the bunker, mortally wounded...
Another minister, the Rev. C. Edward Thompson, 43, of New Kensington, Pa., stood atop the bunker, lifted his hands and cried out for mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...