Word: conning
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...dart board," says a young U.S. Marine at Gio Linh, the American artillery base carved out of the top of a hill overlooking North Viet Nam (see color opposite). The camp's main gate bids a black-humor welcome to "the Alamo of Viet Nam." Like neighboring Con Thien to the west, Gio Linh is the merest outstretched fingertip of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, an isolated and vulnerable outpost less than two miles from the Demilitarized Zone. It lies in a no man's land that has become the bitterest battleground of the war, an arena...
Rain of Shells. Con Thien's lifeline is a four-mile-long road connecting the camp with Landing Zone C2, where its supplies are brought in by air. Last week a Marine battalion providing security for the road was attacked by two battalions of North Viet Nam's 324-B Division-part of some 30,000 Red regulars operating in an area defended by 6,000 Marines. Nearly 100 mortar and rocket shells rained down on the leathernecks. Then, recalls Platoon Sergeant John E. Lewis, 22, "the enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd...
Three days later the Communists attacked Con Thien itself, and a North Vietnamese company followed a heavy artillery and mortar barrage right up to the camp's wire. Repulsed, the Communists withdrew after half an hour, but four Marines were killed and 15 wounded defending the camp perimeter. And all week long, the shells rained down as usual on the Marines. One attack of 80 rounds of 82-mm. mortar fire killed four and wounded 93. Another of rocket and artillery fire killed nine Marines and wounded...
...word is derived from the Latin con-glomerare, meaning "to roll together." In geology, a conglomerate is a number of stone fragments heaped together in a mass...
...GORILLAS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A tough, cynical band of American convicts is pressed into service as behind-enemy-lines guerrillas in World War II. Ron Harper stars as Lieut. Garrison, the officer assigned to ride herd on the hoods. In the premiere, "The Big Con," the gang sets out to capture enemy plates used to print bogus U.S. currency...