Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that trouble my classmates and yet I know my motives are not evil. I though of teaching next year but there are no jobs; I considered organizing but there is no money. I, along with many other people here, intend to fulfill my obligations--but one cannot build without mortar and brick...
...brick and mortar alone turned out to be insufficient. The housing program got off to such a fast start that it caught the Nixon Administration unprepared. Taking advantage of the administrative chaos, unscrupulous speculators put up ramshackle homes and bilked thousands of poor buyers. Much of the housing, moreover, was overconcentrated on the edge of the metropolitan areas. Upwardly mobile blacks and whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage...
...negotiating route can produce better results than a resumption of fighting. For its part, Israel would prefer an agreement to end the rash of truce violations that have claimed 14 dead and 60 wounded since the ceasefire. In one incident last week, three Israeli soldiers were killed when Syrian mortar shells hit their trench. On the Suez front on election day, there were 72 incidents involving mortar fire, small arms and antitank missiles. Israeli leaders warn that without agreement on disengagement, the Geneva talks could collapse; some are putting the matter even more strongly. General Ariel Sharon, the Suez-front...
...miles to the south, the Delta presents a vivid contrast. Driving down Highway 4, which links Saigon with its rice bowl, buses and military convoys vie irritably for space on the narrow asphalt road, amidst foul-smelling cyclones of black exhaust. There is a dull thud or two of mortar and a burst of machine-gun fire in palm trees half a mile to the south. Women stooping in the paddyfields don't even bother to look up. "Just a couple of guerrillas," sighs the driver...
...craft. By 4 in the morning, we were under way. There was no water or food aboard, nor were there any trained medical aides. A few men moaned and called out; one vomited blood and twisted in pain. Most suffered silently. At three points on the voyage, insurgents fired mortar and machine-gun rounds at the boats, providing a fearfully beautiful display of red and yellow flashes in the clear moonlight. By the time we arrived at Phnom-Penh, some of the 400 wounded had died; others were unconscious as they were loaded onto trucks for the trip...