Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inevitably prospered. To Tri Quang, the Catholic Diem was merely an extension of the worst ills of French rule. In the monk's mind, Buddhism and nationalism were inextricably mixed and Diem was a blasphemy on Viet Nam's true destiny. Coolly and quietly, Tri Quang set out to destroy...
Surprise also proved deadly in the jungles of Phuoc Tuy province, 40 miles east of Saigon, where a rifle company of the famed 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") was ambushed by the Viet Cong while engaging in a 10,000 man search-and-destroy sweep called Operation Abilene. Outnumbered 4 to 1, the Americans fought amid the cries of their wounded until the Viet Cong finally withdrew. Army spokesmen described the U.S. losses as "heavy," indicating that at least a third of the 178-man company was killed or wounded...
...Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province by the 101st Airborne Division, whose troopers have killed 149 of the enemy in the past 20 days...
...that the truck had broken down. When the Vietnamese troops caught on to the ruse, their commander demanded passage, declaring, "I am a brave man." Replied U.S. Marine Captain Carl Wreckwell: "I'm not saying you're not brave. It's just that I'll destroy you and your guns if you fire." The commander stormed back to his howitzers, ordered their gaping barrels pointed directly at the truck and Captain Wreckwell. Says Wreckwell: "I always thought the hole of a .45 automatic was the biggest thing in the world until I looked down...
Scientists have been rising to the challenge ever since. Not that they have been motivated by a desire to destroy Einstein's remarkable intellectual achievement-which explains gravity and the large-scale behavior of the universe on the basis of relative motion. Their ingenious tests have been devised largely to satisfy themselves that the theory is indeed sound...