Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Human Renewal. In the past, HHFA programs had dealt essentially with money-bricks-and-mortar policies. But Weaver, who has said repeatedly, "You cannot have physical renewal without human renewal," attempted from the first to instill a more humanized philosophy. He stimulated better-looking public housing by instigating awards for design. He improved relocation policies by increasing funds available to help small businessmen displaced by urban renewal. He saw to it that the Housing Act of 1961 included grants for recreational and scenic open-space areas. And he pushed through in that bill controversial Section 221d3, which gives nonprofit corporations...
...Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage in and out was safe only by helicopter or 100-vehicle heavy convoy. The Viet Cong...
...remote outpost that was under Viet Cong attack. With a chaplain's kit on his left hip and a medical corpsman's bag on his right, Lecky ministered to a dying helicopter pilot, then turned to helping others-even though he was wounded by a mortar shell...
Elephant Gun. Last week, as the Viet Cong again dropped mortar shells on several U.S. Marine cantonments in the perimeter around Danang, the President and his advisers were considering a problem that was a corollary to the decision to resume bombing. How heavily should U.S. war planes bomb the North? At the same level as before? More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point...
Moving out of the mountains and across the la Drang River, 500 troops walked through prickly elephant grass into a Communist ambush. From three sides, Viet Minh hardhats rained mortar, rocket and small-arms fire on the troops. Shouting "G.I. son of a bitch!," they sprang from behind hedgerows and trees, giant anthills and bushes to take on the Americans in savage hand-to-hand fighting. The cavalrymen hollered right back, "Come on, Charlie, come and get it!" The Reds, their flanks raked by strafing fire and napalm, finally retreated...