Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the start of a Viet Cong raid against Danang last week. Under heavy-mortar-fire cover, the raiders stole out of a graveyard toward a sector of the base perimeter patrolled by South Vietnamese troops. The guerrillas snipped one barbed-wire fence, stepped through a dozen holes cut in another fence by defensive troops to facilitate their own movements, and let go with a barrage of grenades, satchel charges and recoilless rifle fire. The Reds ran into no outer guards, were on Danang's runway before they met their first challenger. Carrying coffee to a guard...
...blood indicating that several had been wounded. One was captured, turned out to be a North Vietnamese soldier named Do Xuan Hien, 29, who under questioning said that he had infiltrated into South Viet Nam three months ago with his entire battalion and had trained for the Danang raid for a month...
...Danang raid, as in many other ways, that "ugly little war" in Viet Nam last week got uglier - and bigger...
...asked for and received, effective immediately, the resignation of my administrative assistant, Mr. William Cody Kelly. I regret that in his enthusiasm he has taken action which is contrary to standards which I have established for my staff." Bliss also insisted that he "had no knowledge" of the office raid until Kovac told him about...
...Symptomatic. Not so, claimed Kelly, by now back in Cincinnati. He had himself told Bliss of the raid, and Bliss had "professed satisfaction with my work." But "when the adverse publicity started to flow, the chairman weakened in his support of me, and it was apparent that I was to be sacrificed." Added Kelly: "I must confess that my short stay in politics in Washington has proved that a position with the Republican National Committee is more dangerous than that encountered in my time as a liaison pilot in World...