Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abandoned the siege of Khe Sanh are believed to have filtered down into A Shau, where they have increased the threat to Hue's security. Though the valley has been repeatedly bombed, the U.S. last week turned loose on A Shau the giant B-52s that had helped lift the siege of Khe Sanh. In ten waves averaging six planes each, the eight-engine jets hit the valley with 500 tons of explosives during a 24-hour period and kept coming back throughout the week. They blasted truck parking lots, weapons sites and bunkers, possibly preparing for an allied...
...Communist Chinese planes and tanks, Ayub feels that the balance of subcontinental power is tilting in favor of India-and remains unconvinced by Russia's claim that India's arsenal is only for use against Red Chinese invaders. Furthermore, Pakistan wants the Soviets to lift their U.N. Security Council veto on discussion of Kashmir, the disputed Indian-held state of largely Moslem complexion. Ayub wants to settle its status by plebiscite, demands at least that the subject of Kashmir head any new Indo-Pakistani negotiations...
...That same day the monsoon began to lift from Khe Sanh, and the better weather brought the fighter-bombers to join with the B-52s in earth-jarring raids. The heavy U.S. bombing only heightened the desire of the remaining North Vietnamese troops to get out. The testimony of captured NVA regulars indicates that the bombing so disrupted the Communist supply lines that Giap's men were nearly starving...
...Stanford University's Lambda Nu fraternity house, complains Junior Dan Stone, 20, "our most cohesive social function is watching Walter Cronkite." Next fall the fraternity's social life should get a big lift. With the University's consent, the 30 brothers living at Lambda Nu will welcome 20 coeds as "associates" who will sleep and eat in the fraternity, participate in its activities and, predicts one brother, monopolize the house's lone telephone...
Rising hope for peace in Viet Nam last week gave the stock market another explosive lift. For the third time in two weeks, trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange spurted to a new daily record: 20,410,000 shares on April 10. Even with trading cut to three days by suspensions for Martin Luther King's funeral and Good Friday, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares...