Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Navy jets from the carrier Hancock went back to hit again Haiphong's major oil depot, a repeat of the raid that fortnight ago signaled significant new pressures on the enemy. At the time, reconnaissance indicated that 80% of the targets had been destroyed. When the roiling smoke cleared, the damage turned out to be closer to 30% . So the Navy went back, and for good measure, Navy and Air Force planes at week's end hit fuel dumps 35 miles north of Hanoi and 43 miles south east of Vinh. En route, Skyhawks and Intruders...
Tactical Triumph. Thus, more than a year after U.S. commanders in the field first urged bombing raids on the North's vital industrial targets, the U.S. last week finally attacked the hitherto-sacrosanct Hanoi-Haiphong complex. The operation was a triumph of tactical planning and destructive efficiency. Said an Air Force colonel who took part in the Hanoi raid: "We did the kind of surgical job that hasn't been done in this...
...retained, and still more hands will be added. The paper has also been improved in format. Gone are the frontpage ads, the squiggly lines around feature pictures, and the banner headlines that did not vary in size whether they reported the start of a war or a local vice raid. Pages are now divided into six instead of eight columns. And the changes have already started to pay off. Circulation is up to 70,000; the number of pages has jumped to 44, with a resultant 25% increase in news space. There are 25 new advertisers, with the promise...
...drove up for a chat with Smedley at Smedley's 17th century, thatched country cottage 40 miles north of London. At 2:40 a.m., Smedley summoned police. There lay Calvert, dead of a 12-gauge-shotgun blast in the chest. Police arrested Smed ley, who, though admitting the raid, pleaded innocent to the murder...
...country; he just doesn't dig people"). But he has as much fun flattening lesser dignitaries. When he took out after Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, Royko wrote: "Remember, back in 1959 Quinn was the person who put Chicago under its first atomic alert. He blew all the air raid sirens late one night because he got a kick out of the White Sox clinching a pennant. And anyone who can talk his way out of sending people into the streets in their shorts to await doomsday can talk his way out of anything...