Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous comparable period (962). But the war appears to be going far better than the daily headlines, full of demonstrations and burnings, would suggest. In the air, U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs last week streaked over a big ordnance complex at Yen Bay, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi, and leveled it in the biggest, most destructive single strike of the war. On the ground, 1st Cavalry troopers reported killing more than 450 Viet Cong in Operation Crazy Horse northwest of An Khe, and a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division counted 371 Communist dead after a battle near Pleiku...
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...felt at every level of the country." The leadership's ideas are also aging. Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long March, the retreat from Chiang Kai-shek's armies for 6,000 miles from east China to the barren northwest in 1934-35. They are afflicted with the "Yenan complex"-a belief in absolute, rigid adherence to the methods by which they survived and ultimately attained power. There are some among the Chinese leadership who clearly have doubts about the present course of Chinese policy, which is leading...
...three Phantoms were flying northwest, into the evening sun, escorting a slow, radar-laden RB-66 reconnaissance bomber close to the Red Chinese border. To Major Wilbur R. Dudley, 34, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., the first hint of trouble was the wink of cannon fire beneath his Phantom fighter. It came from four "silver, swept-wing and well-kept aircraft"-Communist MIG-17s, presumably Chinese. "I broke to the right," recalled Dudley after last week's action, "and pickled [dropped] my fuel tanks, and then I came up on this MIG just as it was making a firing pass...
Amid all the unrealities, the Rhodesian crisis did enter a new phase last week. Smith's white security forces, led by helicopters, trapped a small band of guerrillas in the hills 85 miles northwest of Salisbury. Seven of the guerrillas were killed. Smith's government charged that they had all crossed the border from Zambia the week before. What ever their point of origin, the significance of the encounter was clear. For the first time since Smith seized inde pendence last November, Rhodesia's blacks were beginning to fight...