Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday, mortar shells descended near Lang Son, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent on the scene. To the north, heavy artillery shells could be heard every ten to 30 seconds. "Chinese troops have launched a general attack, all the frontier posts are being shelled by heavy artillery," a Vietnamese provincial official announced. "Bloody fighting is taking place, human casualties are certainly heavy." Said a wounded 18-year-old Vietnamese soldier named Trien Van Mien, who staggered into town and fell in the road: "The Chinese are close by, they are everywhere...
...seventh at political meetings or on "volunteer" construction projects. Privately owned automobiles are all but nonexistent, and spare parts for bicycles are in short supply. "There is a great deal of unhappiness," says a Hanoi-based diplomat. "People are starting to complain privately. One of the whispered questions heard most often is an ironic one: 'What the hell are we doing in Cambodia...
...Kraus, a 22-year-old from Lansdale, Pa., got his decorations says much about the postrevolution confusion in Iran. On the morning of Feb. 14, six weeks after he joined the 20-member Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, he was just coming off duty when he heard the sound of gunfire. Over his VHF radio he heard someone shout, "They're attacking ... they're coming over the wall!" Grabbing a shotgun, he ran to the commissary, helped lead some U.S. and Iranian staffers to safety, then moved to a nearby restaurant. Bullets smashed the windows...
...attackers burst in. A machine-gun round cut down an Iranian employee standing next to Kraus. The gunmen took the Marines' flak jackets, helmets, wallets, watches and shotguns. One attacker leveled a shotgun at Kraus. "I shuddered," he says. "I heard the blast," but that was all. Hit on his face and scalp, Kraus passed...
...obscure the one clear conclusion that can be drawn from the drive for a convention--most American voters want to see a federal government cut on taxes and spending, and they're willing to go to the foolhardy length of writing their wishes into the Constitution to make themselves heard. Most likely, fears of constitutional crisis will not come to a test; Congress will either propose the amendment itself or, preferably, persuade voters it will take spending cuts seriously...