Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that these isolated acts add up to a trend. From all appearances, Juhala was acting alone in Michigan, taking private revenge for fancied governmental insults. The motive in the case of the other acts of sabotage remains a mystery. A Weatherman type group called Citizens Committee to Interdict War Materials (CCIWM, pronounced Swim) claims responsibility for the damage and has been duly infiltrated by volunteers working for the feds. But it has not yet written to the President to explain itself...
...succeeding General William C. Westmoreland (now the Army's Chief of Staff), Abrams has presided over and shaped fundamental changes in the day-to-day tactics used to fight the Communists. Where Westmoreland was a search-and-destroy and count-the-bodies man, Abrams proved to be an interdict-andweigh-the-rice man. Where Westmoreland insisted on outnumbering the enemy three or four to one with massive, multibrigade maneuvers, Abrams matched battalion against battalion and brigade against brigade. If a unit made contact with the enemy, he hustled in reinforcements aboard helicopters?a technique that came to be known...
...This is being carried on as part of the over-all effort to interdict and stop the flow of enemy forces which would have an opportunity to attack United States personnel stationed in Vietnam," Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said last week to justify the expanded combat role...
...accord was completely ignored. As the war in Viet Nam intensified, increasing numbers of North Vietnamese poured into Laos to defend the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Chinese road builders appeared all over the north. U.S. advisers flocked to Vientiane, and American planes filled the skies-bombers to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail and transports to ferry government troops around...