Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of war, diplomatic signals course between enemies like radio waves through clouds of static. Lately, however, for all the rhetorical fog, some interesting messages have been broadcast on the critical and anguished question of repatriating prisoners of war in Viet...
There is simply no excuse for continuing to drift around in an aimless, alienated, cynical, despairing fog. It is not enough to be against the war in thought only. Every person who professes to be against the war must act to end America's participation in it. The spring offers a number of opportunities for people not only to demonstrate their opposition to administration policies, but to broaden the base of opposition, and to intensify its character...
...another development in Southeast Asia, a U. S.-supported South Vietnamese raid on a major North Vietnamese headquarters inside Laos was canceled because of heavy anti-aircraft fire and fog...
...Sanh, the distinctive pump and whir of hundreds of helicopter rotor blades began at 7 a.m., even before the morning fog started to lift. Drowsy pilots walked out to their UH-1 Hueys and malevolent-looking OH-6 Cobra gunships, checked out the oil levels, the instruments and the control linkages, and then strolled back to their tactical operations centers. The call to combat came as it has almost every day since the Laotian operation began, well before midmorning. At the heavily sandbagged T.O.C. of the 4th Battalion, 77th Field Artillery, 101st Airborne Division, blond, mustachioed Warrant Officer Fred Hayden...
...number of factors have upset the original expectations. Boxed into static positions, ARVN artillerymen with 155-mm. eleven-mile-range howitzers are often outreached by North Vietnamese gunners with 130-mm. pieces that can fire a shell 17 miles. Fog blankets fire bases and curtails vital air support...