Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While it is causing, or at least encouraging, mischief on its borders, China continues to have trouble con trolling the course of the Cultural Revolution at home. Scarcely three weeks ago the party paper, Red Flag, proclaimed that President Liu Shao-chi, symbol of all the revolution is attacking, had at last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that...
...artillery fire, on the plain just below the DMZ. After digging in with their guns, they lie in wait for the Marines they know must eventually come to try to root them out; that is how the leathernecks ran into the bloody ambush just north of their base at Con Thien three weeks ago. By burying some of their guns in deep holes and caves and moving others from place to place, the North Vietnamese have kept the Marines under continual pressure. Last week they took some heavy pounding themselves. After two months in which they stayed away from...
...Marines' war along the "Demilitarized" Zone between North and South Viet Nam. The action there last week provided grim illustration of the war's bloody turn. Spotting a small force of North Vietnamese grouping for what looked like an attack on the Marine post of Con Thien, two Marine companies moved up Route 161 to do battle. They ran right into an ambush. Two battalions of Hanoi's 324B Division, supported massively by mortars and aided by Red artillery firing over the DMZ from North Viet Nam, hit the 300 Marines, killing 83 and wounding...
...tank gun, which last week knocked out a Marine tank for the first time in the war. Last week, also for the first time, the North Vietnamese zeroed in on the Marines with Russia's family of massive 152-mm. howitzers and long guns: one round hit the Con Thien command post, killing nine Marines and wounding 21. Red shelling of the chief Marine forward base along the DMZ of Dong Ha has become, in fact, so heavy and accurate that the post may soon be abandoned...
...least a little of the blame. "When 20 grey Samsonite bags are sitting on a delivery carousel," says a TWA man, "it is quite conceivable that Jane Roe is going to pick up John Doe's bag. And if she does not, there could always be some con man waiting around who will...