Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a few days after the nation's life insurance industry pledged $1 billion for investment in the ghettos, the Prudential Insurance Co. announced that ground will be broken in riot-scarred Newark next month for the first of the industry-sponsored projects. The $4,500,000 cooperative will house 1,000 people and be completed within a year, compared with at least 21 years for most projects financed by the Federal Government. "For nearly a generation," said Paul Ylvisaker, New Jersey's commissioner of community affairs, "the flow of private mortgage money into the cities has dried...
Riding in 430 helicopters, they came toSouth Viet Nam as the lethal, leapfrogging heralds and exemplars of a new concept of air mobility in waging ground war. It was just after President Johnson had announced a massive U.S. buildup in mid-1965, and the 18,000 men of the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) were given a single vital mission. Their job was to swoop down out of the skies on the enemy's big main-force units wherever they could be found, engage them in battle and then whirl back to the landing pads of the Air Cav "golf...
...nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours the village is alone and tranquil again-minus its Viet Cong...
Novel Harassment. The Air Cav's quick reflexes are still always ready to respond to major ground action when heliborne muscle is needed, or to tangle with any main-force units that dare come out and fight in Binh Dinh. Since few any longer do, the division is using its airpower to harass the Viet Cong in other novel ways. One is Operation Snatch, which is employed whenever a roving Air Cav chopper spots a suspiciously large group of people in the countryside. The Cavalrymen immediately dive down to pick up a few suspects for questioning, a tactic that...
...battle deaths of Americans in the previous six years of the conflict. The year's wounded have reached 45,705-again more than half the total wounded (83,433) since Jan. 1, 1961. The casualties this year reflect the cost of the much greater commitment of U.S. ground forces to the war and the fierce fighting and constant shelling of U.S. Marines along the Demilitarized Zone...