Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered a mortar platoon to light up his position with flares. "I could see around for miles-of course, everyone for miles around could also see me." Then came a radio scolding from Medina: " 'You are without doubt the stupidest second lieutenant on the face of this earth.' 'Yes, sir! I am stupid, sir! What should I do?' 'Turn off them goddamned lights...
...more than 40 per cent of the white officers in my survey condemn its use. "They shouldn't make that sign," complained Staff Sg. Bobby Edwards of Woodsboro, Texas. "That is a show of rebellion and strength." Specialist Lane Bragg of Los Angeles, a squad leader in a mortar platoon in the 82nd Airborne, recalled a white captain chastising him for making the sign to a black sergeant. "What's this clenched fist sign mean?" the Captain yelled. "That sergeant is a good man. You're just a black nigger...
...seven million South Vietnamese-nearly half of the population of the country-now live in concentration camps. Some of the camps are near the major cities, but many are placed around American army bases to absorb the NLF mortar attacks. Saigon now has 2,800,000 people in it, making it the densest city in the world-twice as crowded as Tokyo...
Pusey's appeal is somewhat like that of the medieval church to peasants. We must trudge on, with blinders affixed, through these troubled times, eyes always on the "world of reason, modesty, charity and trust." This is the liberal dream-world; its theatric the mortar of the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie, no more concretely responsive to the anguish of the world now than it was a hundred years...
...then everybody back in. A young guerrilla who was acting as the information officer shrieked at us: 'No pictures! No photographs! You will be disciplined!'' ∙ The situation was hardly more stable in Amman, where Palestinian commandos and Jordanian troops were battling in the streets. Stray mortar, small-arms and machine-gun fire pummeled the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel, which functioned as a journalists' headquarters in the capital. Scott, an old hand in Amman, knew all the survival rules. "The bathtub is the safest place to bed down for the night," he says. "But when the mortars...