Word: cordone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long record of sheltering Viet Cong, scrambled for cover around 6 a.m. when an hour-long mortar and artillery barrage began. When it stopped, helicopters swooped in, disgorging C Company's three platoons. One platoon tore into the hamlet, while the other two threw a cordon around the place. "My family was eating breakfast, when the Americans came," said Do Chuc, a 48-year-old peasant who claims to have lost a son and a daughter in the shooting that followed. "Nothing was said to us," he said. "No explanation was given...
...point in the march a group of about 100 people behind a banner reading "Power to the People" charged through the cordon of marshals who lined the route at Eighth Street in an apparent attempt to attack the White House, but were forced back by the marshals...
Defense witness Winfield B. Perry '70 testified that he saw one of the 19 defendants least ten years outside the police cordon around University Hall at the time police entered the building...
When 60 Yale students forced their way past a police cordon and held four administrators captive in the University Personnel Office Monday. ?hey set in motion Yale President Kingman Brewster's well-publicized scenario for handling student disruptions...
...troops were called in to help police break up a march of about 250 Protestants to the new Martyrs Memorial Church of the Rev. lan Paisley. The troops fired tear gas when the demonstrators tried to push through a cordon blocking their procession...