Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Above Ground...
Search planes had logged 593 hours in 351 sorties, probing an almost constant cloud cover for the little grey plane. Three ground teams had been unable to find the wreckage, and the search was called off after two weeks. "We figured there was no possibility of human life involved," said Air Force Major Robert Hillier, who directed the search. Nonetheless, the eldest of Oien's three sons, Alvin Jr., 32, an airline copilot from Westlake, Texas, stayed in Redding 107 days, scanned the snow from the air every time the weather broke...
...existing state laws. Court cases going back to 1929 give U.S. doctors almost the exclusive right to decide when abortion is necessary to save maternal life; several decisions hold that the danger need not be imminent or certain; in the future, even life-shortening unhappiness might be a legal ground. But few doctors are ready to rely on those decisions in the absence of a Supreme Court ruling...
...abandoned gun emplacements. Plagued by problems of supply and outgunned by the U.S. response, which daily included at least 5,000 artillery shells and 1,000 tons of bombs dropped from B-52s, the North Vietnamese, at least for the moment, drastically reduced their barrage. Perhaps moving to higher ground to escape monsoon flooding of their emplacements, they lobbed only 40 or 50 rounds of shells a day on the Marines...
General William C. Westmoreland called Con Thien "a Dienbienphu in reverse," but he added that the Reds would probably be back. Even so, Con Thien represented a U.S. victory. The Marines had taken the best that the Communists could throw at them and had held their ground and fought back valiantly and effectively. Their showing can only have given some pause to Hanoi's war strategists...