Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. "Our business is military." Heintges keeps 66 men in Vientiane, has the rest scattered over the country in eight field training teams. They ride pony-back over mountain trails to supervise front-line delivery of medicine, food and pay (all U.S.-supplied). Tough ex-sergeants direct rifle and mortar practice (but the teaching of tactics is banned, since it has nothing to do directly with the handling of U.S. equipment). A priority job for his men these days: seeing that expensive parachutes, used in supply drops, wind up back in packs rather than on native girls. "One principal concern...
Warfare is not in character for Laotians, a gentle people given to indolence, rice wine and frequent Buddhist festivals. But one noon last week civil war broke in the administrative capital of Vientiane, the City of Sandalwood. Tanks rolled through the streets firing in all directions. Mortar shells thudded down on hotels, embassies and shops. At a temple, 100 monks in saffron robes fluttered about like a flock of birds, seeking shelter behind big stone images of Buddha...
...Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem woke with a start. Mortar shells were falling on the lawn, and paratroopers were assaulting the palace gate...
...Fabrique Nationale) 7.62-mm. rifle used by NATO. So anxious was Castro to get the rifles that he ordered 25,000 at double the usual $75 price, plus 52 million cartridges, 2,000 new 9-mm. pistols, hundreds of machine guns and more than 100,000 artillery and mortar shells. At least twelve ships delivered 75% of the order before "friendly warnings" to Belgium by the U.S. forced a halt...
When news of the killing reached Kingston, Premier Manley mobilized the island's forces. A force of 1,000 men-Jamaican cops, West India Regiment troops and British soldiers of the Hampshires-was sent into action with aircraft, police dogs mortar and rocket crews. Manley pleaded with Jamaican hill-dwellers who knew the fugitives' whereabouts to cooperate in tracking them down, but for fear of Ras Tafarian reprisal, the answer was silence...