Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invasion Force. Outnumbered 2 to 1 and surrounded on three sides by a federal army that totals about 50,000 men, Biafra nonetheless seems ready to fight for the last inches of its turf. Pushed out of the Midwestern state, which they had seized in a daring raid, Ojukwu's men have hurled back boatloads of troops trying to cross the Niger River after them. One big government ferry got stuck on a sandbar in midpassage; while searchlights lit it up, Biafran guns splintered it, and hundreds of men drowned. Elsewhere, the war has become a kind of ballet...
...Boston newsstands refused to sell Avatar, even before the obscenity decision, Avatar had to sell its twelfth and thirteenth issues--deliberate parodies of "obscenity"--primarily through street vendors. Boston and Cambridge authorities responded to the hippy news-boys with harrassment, arrests and, one day last week, a flying raid on Avatar's Boston office...
...which the camera focuses almost exclusively on U.S. troops. American viewers, of course, never see the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong in battle, let alone committing brutalities. Indeed, when the Communists do release films to Western TV, they invariably show little more than heroic civilians during an air raid or triumphant Hanoians watching a U.S. plane going down...
During the raid on the office roughly 30 people distributed 2000 free Avatars to crowds at Harvard Square, while four Cambridge police told everyone to "keep moving and stop blocking the sidewalk...
...through the week. At nightfall the infantrymen would pull back, and air and artillery would go to work. B-52s several times came in to pound enemy positions, particularly along the lines of retreat to the Laotian border, where 150,000 Ibs. of explosives were dropped in a single raid. At week's end the fighting was still flaring in spots around Dak To, having already cost the Communists some 500 dead. This time the price was also heavy for some U.S. units, which lost a total of 53 dead...