Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ralph Abernathy, successor to King as president of the SCLC, will be in Boston May 9 to launch the northeastern caravan...
...valley of A Shau lies south of Khe Sanh on the Laos border, 30 miles southwest of Hue-only a night's march beyond the protective jungle for an enemy force aiming to launch a surprise attack on the ancient capital of Viet Nam. After seizing the valley in March 1966, the North Vietnamese brought in artillery, antiaircraft guns and tons of supplies, built bunkers and fortifications all the way in from the Laotian border...
...bloody hand-to-hand battle on the ground that many military men had anticipated. It was a battle of the air might of the U.S. against every stratagem that the besieging enemy could muster. Bombing the North Vietnamese with such precision that they were destroyed before they could ever launch their attack, the U.S. could justly claim a considerable victory at Khe Sanh without ever having committed its ground forces to the fray. Khe Sanh was, in fact, a landmark in the use of airpower in warfare-the first time that aerial bombardment has denied an attacker the ability...
...than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through...
...their own families and sweethearts since their ship was seized off North Korea in January. Having failed at the diplomatic level to extract an apology from the U.S. for the Pueblo's activities, the North Koreans are now playing on the understandable fears of the captive Navymen to launch a propaganda campaign and to try to force the U.S. into some sort of an admission of wrongdoing...