Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of Rademaekers' men were on the job almost before they knew it. Correspondent John Cantwell was practically blown out of his Embassy Hotel bed by mortar fire. He raced to the roof and got a panoramic view of the battle for the Presidential Palace. Correspondent Wallace Terry who spent the night at a U.S. AID official's home, found himself in an ideal spot from which to view the fierce firefight for the U.S. embassy. Correspondents Don Sider and Glenn Troelstrup were already at Khe Sanh, where they were joined by David Greenway...
...beard and steel-rimmed glasses, he seemed decidedly unmilitary and way out of his element. But he had considerable success in selling enough material to support himself in Saigon. He first broke even with the sale of a story and pictures to Parade Magazine about the mortaring incident at the Thieu-Ky inauguration. He and his camera were close to the spot where Vice President Humphrey, Ambassador Bunker and General Westmoreland were to be, had not rain forced the ceremonies inside. VC mortar landed square on the spot and the Dartmouth man was in luck...
Despite such tactics, incidents of terrorism still occur. Arab "commandos" last month infiltrated close enough to Tel Aviv to lob nine mortar shells into the suburb of Petah Tiqva, and two weeks ago another guerrilla band shot it out with police near the city's international airport. Terrorists also blew up the water reservoir of a kibbutz in Upper Galilee, almost succeeded in cutting the rail line to Jerusalem and derailed a passenger train in the Negev...
...look at Dak Son, the Montagnard village recently destroyed by the Viet Cong in the war's worst atrocity. The Senator and a party of four hopped to the ground in Dak Son, leaving Loraine Percy in the chopper, and were met by a welcoming barrage of mortar and small-arms fire from surrounding V.C.s. "I can assure you I have never gotten closer to the ground," said Percy, who was pinned down for 15 minutes until four U.S. Army copters whirred in to bail him out. "I saw more action there than I did in three years...
...Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick-and-mortar bureaucratic conformists and too few spiritual leaders with real pastoral qualities. Aware that the system needs updating, the U.S. hierarchy last April agreed to set up a special commission that would screen candidates proposed by all bishops. Some U.S. bishops-among them Bishop Clarence Issenmann of Cleveland-have begun...