Word: cam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHATEVER else may be said about George Wallace and his third-party presidential candidacy, the Alabamian has delivered on one cam paign promise before getting his first vote. "We're going to shake the eyeteeth of the liberals of both national parties," he pledged in Des Moines last week. By liberal, he means anything left of the far, far right, and he has already unsettled some political ivory in that broad area...
...Hanoi. In the end, both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...
After 12 weeks of fusing 750-lb. bombs in Cam Ranh Bay, Airman First Class Patrick J. Nugent, 24, has volunteered for still more hazardous duty. Now in the first stages of training as a loadmaster for C-123 transport planes, President Johnson's younger son-in-law will eventually be charged with loading and dumping out supplies to troops in the field-an assignment that may take him into the thick of combat...
...There are about 40,000 Roman Catholic Vietnamese in Hué What happened to them? About three-quarters of the Roman Catholics in Hué live in Phu Cam, on the southern outskirts of the city. They resisted strongly when the enemy came in, and some were executed. Four Viet Nam priests were taken away and three foreign priests were killed. Two French priests were actually given permission by the Viet Cong to return to Phu Cam and help the sisters-and then they were shot on the way back. Another French priest was executed, perhaps because he was chaplain...
...first appearance in South Viet Nam nine months ago, and has since been used with increasing intensity. It is the Soviet-made, self-propelled 122-mm. rocket, whose seven-mile range has snatched every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They denounce it as a terror weapon because, like most rockets...