Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soon the rifle shots were augmented by mortar fire and grenade explosions. Panicky guests scattered from the open patio to the throne room or to the beach, but many were cut down by gunfire. A grenade landed at Hassan's feet; Bourguiba heroically picked it up and tossed it away, probably saving the King's life. Thirty truckloads of cadets in battle fatigues swarmed over the grounds and made guests lie down in the broiling sun. ∙ In the confusion, Hassan slipped into the throne room and then into another room farther inside. There he dickered with General...
...North Vietnamese went all put last week to make that impression stick. In a series of chest-beating radio broadcasts, Hanoi urged the Communist forces in South Viet Nam to "take advantage of our victory in Laos" by mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen...
...minutes later, after Schulte had drifted back to his bunker, the base exploded. Hundreds of mortar shells arced down out of the moonless sky with uncanny accuracy. Hunkered down in their bunkers, the G.I.s never even saw the 50 or so North Vietnamese sappers who slipped through the perimeter wire, wearing nothing but shorts, black grease and strings of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). One group wiped out the 155-mm. howitzers, another tossed tear gas grenades and satchel charges into the TOC, killing or wounding virtually everyone inside. Methodically, the others went from bunker to bunker, blowing them with satchel...
...their Egyptian masters. On the traditional Seder table are the symbolic foods: the salt water and bitter herbs, reminders of the time of bondage; the roasted lamb, recalling the paschal sacrifice on the eve of the Exodus; the mixture of apples, nuts, spices and wine, symbol of the mortar with which the Hebrews made bricks for Pharaoh. And of course, the three matzoth, which, suggests the narrator, "represent the Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
...what many Americans consider ARVN's top infantry division, the 1st. Moreover, the operation underscored continuing deficiencies in crucial areas like communications. American pilots had problems with Vietnamese ground controllers, who have a tough time pronouncing words like "coordinate"-or speaking English at all while ducking rocket and mortar fire...