Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth raid on the compound since it was removed from the proscribed list two weeks ago. One reason U.S. planners are anxious to destroy the helicopters is that they could be used to transport mobile SAM antiaircraft missiles into positions near the DMZ. Once in place, the SAMS could zero in on the big and unmaneuverable B-52s, whose huge bomb loads have so effectively broken up North Vietnamese troop concentrations around Con Thien...
...Fitzpatrick. "Everybody says, 'Acid: good and good for you. Grass: good like milk and oatmeal cookies,'" notes one Los Angeles rock musician. "So kids begin to think in terms of drugs and they think, 'Meth! Groovy!' But they don't know that it can destroy them...
...become anathema to anti-war groups because of its production of napalm. The substance is intended to burn out jungle overgrowth, but it falls all too often on Vietnamese civilians. Napalm--and the company that makes it--have become symbolic of a war that tries to destroy communism by bombing people...
...jeopardy. We do this by not facing the facts, however unpleasant: China is the great power in Asia and she cannot be contained by us; Communism and nationalism are inseparably fused in Viet Nam, and the fusion will not disappear short of genocide. We feel ourselves called upon to destroy the Communist philosophy by war. This is impossible, so we kill people, but not ideas...
...northeast of the capital; the railway terminal and power plant in Lao Cai, a North Vietnamese town that sits directly on the Chinese border; the piers at the auxiliary port of Hon Gai; and, of course, the docks at Haiphong. But unless the U.S.'s new choke-and-destroy air strategy is suddenly curtailed, all those objectives, except perhaps the Haiphong docks, are soon likely to feel the blast of U.S. air strikes...