Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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North of Khe Sanh, some 20,000 Communist troops were poised above the Demilitarized Zone, while inside the DMZ the Communists massed a formidable array of tanks, mortar batteries, rockets, antiaircraft guns and heavy 152-mm. howitzers with an elevenmile range. The buildup-biggest in the DMZ since the 1968 bombing halt-might have been a reaction to allied hints that an invasion of North Viet Nam might be attempted if Lam Son were to turn sour. But some U.S. officers, fearful that it foreshadowed a period of relentless Communist shelling and possibly a fullblown invasion, rushed 7,000 additional...
Bricks and Mortar...
...Gruson, said that M. I. T. plans to build over 1600 units of housing over the next few years. To this, as to Gruson before him, Vellucci leaned forward and said, "Well... so far I don't see too much going on. I want to see bricks and mortar. Bricks and mortar, you hear...
...pilots have reported heavy North Vietnamese mortar and rocket fire at the base, which they claim is "doomed." Because of the heavy fire pilots are having difficulty flying in supplies, and some South Vietnamese forces were reported running low on artillery ammunition...
...Military sources reported yesterday that rocket and mortar shelling of Khe Sanh, a South Vietnamese supply point and flight center for operations into Laos, has been the heaviest since...