Word: mai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belong here at all. But in another sense he belongs with the men indicted for trying to cover up the plumbers' unit's subversive activities, because as press secretary to the Pentagon, Friedheim tried to cover up the continuing bombing of Cambodia. When American bombers destroyed the Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi in December 1972, Friedheim acknowledged that there might have been minor incidental damage to "the hospital the enemy calls Bach Mai." If conspiring to cover up a burglary by lying to the FBI is grounds for indictment, then so is conspiring to cover up a wave of terror...
There is a saying among Minneapolis singles that "if you can't make it at the Guard, you can't make it anywhere." Says Mai Kennedy, a Wisconsin attorney: "It's a sultan's haven. If you're a good operator, the only question is 'Where does one start?'" Females are equally enthusiastic. "I get ten offers a night," boasts Kathy Thue, 23, a beauty adviser from Minneapolis. "The body friction is enough to get everyone going...
Doctors and therapists in Hanoi's Bach Mai Hospital were working, also unaware of the air defense crews' feverish activity. One of the hospital's most important functions was to teach people deafened by bomb concussions to hear and speak again; staff members were leading patients in complex relearning exercises...
ABRUPTLY, air raid sirens wailed through the dusk. Orderlies trundled Bach Mai's patients into underground shelters, and the bicyclers, strollers and loungers retraced familiar steps to their assigned havens. Missile batteries in the city's outskirts rotated into position, and anti-aircraft crews within the city donned helmets and waited patiently. Some riflemen peered skyward, but their efforts were futile: unlike smaller fighter-bombers, B-52's fly too high to be seen by the naked eye. Most of the people of Hanoi crouched in their shelters; they huddled in the dark and waited...
...silence that followed the warning sirens was broken by the dull thud of exploding bombs. Sirens wailed again, this time directing ambulance crews to the wounded. Bach Mai Hospital suffered the first of many direct hits. Homes and schools crumpled under the onslaught, and the night sky lit up with strings of smaller explosions. Rescue teams poked through wrecked buildings, searching for wounded people trapped beneath the rubble. The dead lay silent...