Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the three years since he ordered the first U.S. air raid against North Viet Nam, Lyndon Johnson has insisted that presidential authority must be given for any bombing attack near the Chinese border. Repeatedly, he refused to issue that authority. Last week, with the President's express permission, U.S. fighter-bombers swooped within twelve miles of China to deny Ho Chi Minh's regime one of its few remain ing sanctuaries - the 30-mile buffer zone along the Chinese frontier...
...provinces, the Viet Cong have been ordered to attack candidates, raid election stations, destroy ballot boxes and pressure peasants to boycott the polls. During last September's elections for the Constituent Assembly, the V.C. assassinated 37 candidates and cam paign workers. Since the presidential election is far more important, this time they are aiming higher...
...informant, police were kept advised of the League's activities. At 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling away," Howison...
...range of tactics can be. In two cunningly prepared ambushes, they killed 69 Americans in the Central Highlands. In a rocket onslaught on the huge air base at Danang, they killed eight men and did about $80 million worth of damage to U.S. planes. And, in a guerrilla-style raid that they have honed to near perfection, they swarmed over the provincial prison camp in Quang Nam province and released 1,220 prisoners, most of them Viet Cong suspects...
...preceding months Trotsky had been deserted and renounced by some of his closest associates, including his Mexican protector and benefactor, the painter Diego Rivera. And in May, 1940, Trotsky's home was subjected to an armed-raid, apparently at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Around 4 a.m. a group of assailants broke into Trotsky's home and pumped about 200 machine gun bullets into Trotsky's bedroom. Although the attack left him miraculously unharmed Trotsky became increasingly concerned about his own safety and the safety of his papers...