Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the President calmly but measurably stepped up the action in Viet Nam: he sent U.S. jets thundering across the 17th parallel, blasting North Viet Nam targets not on a tit-for-tat reprisal basis but in clear declaration of intent to continue striking north until Hanoi stops sending men and arms south. And at his order, two battalions of U.S. Marines-a total of 3,500 men -prepared to move into South Viet Nam to stiffen defenses around the big airbase at Danang...
...political climate are both uncertain, and coups or clouds kept getting in the way. Finally 19 propeller-driven South Vietnamese Skyraiders and 20 U.S. Air Force Super Sabres took off from Danang and headed for the North Vietnamese torpedo-boat base at Quangkhe, 65 miles north of the 17th parallel. There they relentlessly clobbered berths, repair shops, ammo dumps and supply warehouses with 70 tons of bombs, destroying an estimated 70% of the targets and sinking three to five PT boats in the bargain...
...week, the Viet Cong were moving closer and closer to control of the whole top third of South Viet Nam. An atmosphere of siege prevailed in Hue, South Viet Nam's third largest city, where the population dared not leave the city limits. From Quinhon to the 17th parallel, the countryside swarmed with cocky Viet Cong units-some operating in battalion and regiment strength, many now openly wearing olive-drab uniforms and fatigue hats rather than the civilian-style black "pajamas" that once gave them military invisibility...
People of the Book tells not one but two parallel stories. The first follows the public acts and private thoughts of the two great Protestant leaders of the Thirty Years War, the brilliant commander King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his equally brilliant chief minister, Axel Oxenstierna. The second story dives into the ebb and flow of destruction across the shattered principalities of Central Europe to follow the fates of a young man, Lars Larsen, and the lovely little sister he is trying to bring up and lead to safety. The two stories join only at one point, where Oxenstierna...
...even shriller. The Chinese warned that they "absolutely will not stand idly by" and that "we are waiting for you in battle array." After a close reading of the Communist complaints, Washington experts concluded that what Russia and China said did not threaten drastic action. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence sources noted no unusual signs of activity, either in Hanoi's 225,000-man army or in a Red Chinese force of 300,000 that has been massed just over the North Vietnamese border since last summer's Ton kin Gulf crisis...