Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: If the convertible is dying out in popularity in the U.S. [July 28], it is the automobile industry that is killing it. During the past 27 years convertibles have been designed to be as conventional as sedans; in the past seven years sedans have been designed to be as...
(6 of 10) their traditional authority figure. In the past decade, the Viet Cong have systematically wiped out some 15,000 local offi cials?disposing of the worst as well as the best. Killing the best undermines Saigon capacity to govern; killing the worst wins the villagers' gratitude. The result...
To have its desired effect, terror must be judiciously applied. So in 1962, Hanoi sent down orders to "set up specialized units and clandestine forces" to take over most such operations. Since then, the level of violent incidents has risen from 5,000 a year to 25,000, the work...
Larger attacks, such as the shelling of Saigon on National Day last Nov. 1, are designed to demonstrate that the Viet Cong are everywhere able to strike at will, even in the cities that are under government control. Oddly enough, there is evidence that the National Day attack was spoiled...
On March 23, 1967, a small plane crashed into a mountainside 20 miles north of Da Nang, Vietnam, killing all eight passengers and the pilot. The passengers--all of them American educators--were conducting a survey on behalf of the Agency for International Development on public universities in South Vietnam...