Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway THE LITTLE FOXES. An admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play in Lincoln Center demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together wilh the mortar of plot. Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Richard Dysart and Margaret Leighton are expertly guided by Director Mike Nichols through gilt-edged performances as members of a family afflicted with a vulpine itch for plunder in the turn-of-the-century South...
...Viet Cong struck just after midnight one night last week, pouring a rain of rocket and mortar rounds on the Special Forces camp and on the sub-sector compound. Part of their 273rd Regiment roared into the undefended town itself, took it over and used its dispensary to treat Viet Cong wounded. At the same time, other elements of the 273rd attacked the subsector compound from the north and west, filtering through the gloom of the rubber trees and throwing themselves against the guns of the 105 men inside...
...major plants, hitting their oil storage tanks, pipeline complexes and coking and cracking units with every incoming shell. U.N. truce supervisors immediately appealed for a ceasefire, but the Israelis ignored them. A second appeal was referred to Jerusalem, where the government pleaded ''technical difficulties" in contacting the mortar units at the front...
...South. For the past six weeks, in one of the greatest artillery duels in history, North Vietnamese army gunners have rained as many as 900 rounds of big artillery and mortar shells a day on the Marine stronghold two miles south of the DMZ. Last week, as they poked their heads out of their muddy dugouts, the Marines at Con Thien noticed an unusual absence of the harsh hiss of incoming shells. U.S. aerial reconnaissance found out why: in groups of 10 and 15, North Vietnamese regulars were spotted making their way northward out of the DMZ, leaving behind some...
...exaggerated-partly because casualties from artillery and every other cause have been lumped together by the military and reported as though they were all inflicted by the big guns. Of 158 Marines killed around Con Thien during the first 24 days of September, 44 died in artillery, rocket and mortar attacks, the rest in firefights with North Vietnamese infiltrators. One captured Communist reported that Red casualties were so heavy in the DMZ area that aid stations were overflowing...