Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coast was crowded with reservists hitchhiking to join their units. In the cities, girls in khaki miniskirts and pertly cocked overseas caps were on round-the-clock duty at sandbagged gun positions. Middle-aged men volunteered for temporary police duty, and middle-aged housewives enlisted for service as air-raid wardens. Schoolchildren delivered the mail, and university students paid their own way to remote kibbutzim (collective farms) to replace teachers called to arms. In Jerusalem, two wealthy merchant brothers responded to the emergency by paying up five years of back taxes. In Tel Aviv, an army officer and his wife...
...fighter sweep of the war, suckering seven MIGs to their fate (TIME, Jan. 13). Flying a 1,450-m.p.h. F-4C Phantom fighter nicknamed Scat, he dropped one supersonic MIG-21 himself in that sortie, added another on May 4 while flying MIGCAP (for "combat air patrol") in a raid on the Hanoi transformer installation. A weekend ago, he and his "gibs" (guy-in-the-back-seat, or copilot) spotted 15 slower but more maneuverable MIG-17s coming up fast during a fighter-bomber raid 40 miles northeast of the Communist capital. The ensuing scramble lasted only eleven minutes...
...result is steadily mounting tension above the 38th parallel. Air-raid shelters are being built in the cities, and antiaircraft batteries are reportedly going up in the countryside. To be certain the people keep the faith, Kim's government stages regular political-indoctrination classes at factories, offices, schools and neighborhood meeting halls; militia groups practice bayoneting replicas of Uncle Sam. Kim is also careful that his people hear nothing of the economic and political progress of the South or of the great upheaval of the cultural revolution in Red China, which might send ripples through his own country...
Carrier-based Navy jets screeched through MIG-cluttered skies to hit the MIG base at Kep, northeast of Hanoi, with 250-lb. bombs and cluster bombs that spray thousands of lethal metal fragments. In two raids, they scored moderate-to-heavy damage to the run way, control tower and oil-storage tanks, but apparently caught few, if any, MIGs in their hardstands; an orange cloud of billowing smoke was visible al most 20 miles away. Flying out of bases in Thailand, a dozen Air Force Phantom jets then scorched the new MIG base at Hoa Lac, damaged or destroyed...
...barbed wire-all on the prudent assumption that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would soon assault the city again. Similar unease prevailed in Hue, where the Viet Cong radio promised an attack soon. Premier Ky, who flew to Quang Tri to inspect the damage of the first raid, came up with his own solution to the province's troubles. It included the possible evacuation of the entire civilian population and the creation of a bulldozed, mined and wired barrier along the DMZ. Though such a Viet Nam-wall idea has long been discussed in Washington and rejected...