Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunker. With so many harpoons filling the air, Johnson prudently stuck to his bunker for much of the year. In 1966, he held 40 formal press conferences; in 1967, only 21. He spent two months at the L.B.J. Ranch last year, and even in Washington made himself scarce for long periods...
...Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military leaders greeted him coolly, if at all. Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force, was scheduled to talk with him at Danang but somehow remained busy elsewhere throughout the visit...
...embassy in Saigon now believes that the best way out of the war would be through direct negotiations between the South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has been quietly promoting the idea, but President Thieu resists,1 arguing that his own generals would get up in arms against him if he were to dare recognize the Viet Cong. Thieu last week was drafting a letter to Ho, proposing to meet him face to face. In the unlikely event that Ho accepts, Thieu will ask the U.S. to stop bombing for seven days and to continue...
...Bunker by Bunker. Nha's Marines drove in on the enemy from the north and east. The U.S. battalion jumped ashore and set up a position on the south, and another U.S. battalion was helilifted in on the west. Boxed in, the Viet Cong's 502nd Battalion fought with the bitterness of despair. Sometimes neck-deep in water, wallowing in mud, the Vietnamese Marines moved in bunker by bunker, dropping grenades into the Viet Cong firing slits and forcing the Viet Cong in the dikes out into the open, where air support and artillery, when it arrived, could...
...next attack came a night later at Bu Dop, a U.S. Special Forces camp 21 miles north of Bo Due. Viet Cong intelligence was so precise that one of the first rockets dropped directly on top of an important U.S. bunker, killing the three American occupants. With suicidal intensity reminiscent of the Chinese in Korea, wave after wave of Viet Cong rolled over each other toward the camp. This time a hail of fire from a battalion of U.S. defenders and the miniguns of circling American gunships stopped the assault short of the fort's outer fences. Chalk...