Word: mortared
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...officials say the commandos kept up a running fire fight with their pursuers for more than two miles. The known survivor recalls seeing two of his friends shot. At one point he blacked out, possibly from a mortar round landing close by. When he regained consciousness, two of his teammates--Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz, 25, and Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29--were dead, and a third had vanished in the darkness and fog. The surviving SEAL dragged himself at least another mile up into the mountains. It was there he was found four days later by Gulab the shepherd...
...Several kilometers away, from positions of relative safety, the Burmese army launched more than 3,000 heavy mortar rounds, Yawd Serk adds. These not only hit the S.S.A.?six Shan were killed and 31 injured, he says?but also caused U.W.S.A. casualties and sowed panic in its ranks. Today the Wa fortifications below seem deserted, but Yawd Serk's soldiers are taking no chances. Nearby, on grassy slopes recently littered with Wa corpses, they plant fields of punji stakes made from sharpened bamboo to prevent a repeat assault...
...bricks-and-mortar terms, the neighborhood is a far sight better off than it was when the cries of "Burn, baby, burn!" died down. Several hundred units of government-subsidized housing dot the neighborhood, replacing some of the vacant lots left after the rioting. The intersection of 103rd Street and Compton Avenue, ground zero in 1965, could be Anywhere U.S.A. The sprawling Watts Health Center dominates one corner and a new post office the other. Across the street is a shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little...
...bombing. But it was the culmination of an especially bloody week in the city. On Wednesday, another car bomb had exploded in East Beirut, killing 15 people, many of them children, and shattering a six-story apartment building. Scores of civilians also fell victim to artillery and mortar exchanges between rival Christian and Muslim forces. WEST GERMANY Fatal Identity...
...Foley said that the opening of the new HUECU had nothing to do with the resurgence of brick-and-mortar branches...