Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down again at the peace talks in Geneva last week, on the hopeful assumption that a cease-fire was at last in effect in Laos, when the news arrived from Ban Hat Bo, a village near the Mekong River in central Laos. After a heavy mortar barrage that lasted two hours, 1,000 Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers had attacked to a frenzied blowing of bugles. The Ban Hat Bo garrison fled, along with their five U.S. military advisers. One of them noted bitterly that the Communist assault, with its tooting bugles and the human-wave technique, was "Korea...
...months. Every part of the apse was measured, every stone numbered and painstakingly packed in boxes. At The Cloisters, the stones were treated with a secret preservative to protect them against the cold, rain and city smoke. In January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high narrow windows, everything fitted perfectly...
...system "calls for a year of very careful planning before we leap into the bricks-and-mortar stage," President Bunting cautioned. On June 29 and 30 the College will sponsor a conference of approximately 15 anthropologists, sociologists, industrial designers, and architects to discuss plans for the living units...
...warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where Meo tribesmen gathered as many as 400 strong to greet their new weapons and instructors. The Meo's Colonel Vang Phao now runs a mortar and rifle range in the mountains with U.S. help. One Meo guerrilla band ambushed a Pathet Lao column last week, killed 30 and wounded some 60 more...
...intelligible language is trying to rationalize the irrational." The rational order came only after a three-man, seven-month job of covering the running story on Laos' little war. TIME Correspondent Jerry Schecter bounced about the front in single-engined planes. Correspondent James Wilde narrowly escaped death when mortar fragments riddled his MG during the battle for Vientiane last December. Fortnight ago he wangled his way into the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres for a startling report on the Communist arms buildup there (TIME, March 10). Karnow himself talked to a vast collection of sources: princes, diplomats, generals, former...