Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sausage shop is gone, a few gun emplacements and foxholes testifying to its brief, final existence as a strongpoint. In the rear of the shop are charred remains of sausage meat, roasted black by fire. Soldiers and townspeople report a fierce battle, with bombing and plenty of mortar and artillery fire. The untidy debris of war is everywhere: mortar fragments, rifle clips, hand-grenade cartons, an entrenching tool...
Saigon statisticians claimed that at least 821 enemy troops had been killed in action in the few days since Cease-Fire II had been signed, while ARVN losses totaled 218. By the Saigon command's own admission, however, most contacts in recent days have amounted only to mortar and rocket exchanges. What fighting has occurred has been limited to the Chuong Thien province in the Mekong Delta and Kontum in the Central Highlands. In the northerly I Corps area, virtually no combat has been reported. Said a Western diplomat: "The combat statistics show that incidents are only a fifth...
Such fighting as there is consists largely of mortar attacks on South Vietnamese positions, mining roads, placing booby traps and occasional kidnapings of village and hamlet chiefs. While the North Vietnamese army has moved in additional men and materiel, it does not seem interested in launching a major offensive soon. Rather, it appears to be restoring what it expended during the 1972 spring fighting and hardening its grip on what...
...Communist mortar shell recently dropped right into a new compound being prepared for the ICCS, killing one workman and injuring three others. "We really were not in great danger," said one of the Canadians, "because the Communists knew every inch of this ground. If they had wanted to hit us, they could have. I think they were simply trying to frighten us away...
...Walking Tours of Cambridge dismisses the building at 14 Plympton Street in about half a sentence, giving short shrift to its "neo-Georgian" design, and saying that Lampy's castle "puts to shame the Crimson Building." Harvard's semi-official book on it own architecture, Education, Bricks, and Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon's pleasure dome. The Crimson...