Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Viet Nam and Laos. High-speed trails have been cut eastward from Laos into South Viet Nam to supply the Communist besiegers, who are heavily armed with portable howitzers and mortars. To ensure easier access to the new trails, the Communists last week overran the Royal Laotian border outpost of Ban Houei Sane and put its 2,000 defenders to flight...
...past two weeks, Hanoi has ordered a savage increase in the tempo of the fighting (see THE WORLD), and U.S. intelligence sources noted "a big buildup" of North Vietnamese troops in Laos, just across the border from the vulnerable U.S. Marine outpost of Khe Sanh near the Demilitarized Zone...
Harvard, predictably, massacred Penn's hockey team 15-1 Saturday night, but you couldn't expect a squad from the Ivy League's southernmost outpost to be any good at hockey. After all, does Miami have a curling team...
...plane circled for hours over a camp in Alaska before it was finally guided to a safe landing by a searchlight from a nearby mountain. After the performance ("Brace up, you're God's frozen people!"), Hope asked about the searchlight crew, pushed up to the outpost and performed a second show-for two lonely, grateful men. In 1963, just before his annual Christmas tour, Hope suffered a blood clot in his left eye. Doctors saved his sight with laser-beam surgery. While he was recuperating, his U.S.O. company went on without him to Ankara. Hope flew...
When Pic accompanied the Viet Cong on their forays out of the camp, he was struck by the fact that although they carried Chinese automatic weapons, antitank guns and bazookas, in the three weeks he was with them, they never used them once. They did not attack an enemy outpost or hamlet. They did not even take a shot at the several reconnaissance planes that flew over daily. If they did, they knew there would be almost certain retaliation from U.S. bombers-and the very real chance of losing a friendly TV cameraman...