Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighter-bombers last week continued to hammer at Hanoi's roads, bridges and fuel depots. As in the week before, Hanoi responded with the most sophisticated weaponry in its defensive armory-and again found it useless. Twenty SAM ground-to-air missiles were fired. All missed. Supersonic MIG-21 fighters rose to tangle with U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantoms flying bomber escort north of Hanoi. North Viet Nam is thought to have only 15 of the advanced Russian jets, and the encounter cost them two of those, knocked down by the Phantoms' Sidewinder missiles-the second...
Ordinary antiaircraft fire proved something else again. So densely has Hanoi ringed likely targets that in the past month ground fire has claimed an average of one U.S. plane a day over North Viet Nam. Last week five U.S. planes were downed. One of them was an Air Force Phantom. Set afire by flak, the Phantom's two-man crew sent out a distress signal, then radioed that they were going to try to reach the Gulf of Tonkin...
...recovery mission is a formidable task force, often dedicated to finding and retrieving just one man. High overhead circles the "Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival...
...some areas of the city, black-market water was bringing 24? a bucket. Ships putting into port received only enough water to get them to the next stop. Building construction ground to a complete halt. Other industries were forced to close for a day. City authorities were even discussing the possibility of evacuating many of Bombay's 5,000,000 people to less arid regions of India...
Using psychiatrists' statements that he has no such thing, Boutilier took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Last week that court, in a 2-1 decision, rejected Boutilier's appeal on the ground that "psychopathic personality" legally means what Congress was too circumspect to say, "No homosexuals allowed...