Word: raids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong, who initiated the latest truce, shattered it almost immediately. Communist guerrillas fired on a U.S. Marine platoon near Danang, killing two sergeants. A fierce battle between Reds and South Korean troops near Tuy Hoa resulted in 53 Communist dead. In a pre-dawn raid by terrorists, a 25-lb. bomb exploded outside a U.S. billet near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, killing a U.S. soldier...
Under the old system, freshmen were interviewed by each of the Houses to which they applied. Masters were permitted to accept a certain number of the freshmen who had applied to their House as first choice. Then Houses which had few first-choice applications were permitted to "raid" the of Houses that were over-applied. Houses then took certain percentages of their second and third-choice applicants, and the rest went to a pool...
When medicare was still in the talking stage, most insurance companies protested that the Federal Government was proposing a massive raid on their territory. Once they found that they couldn't lick medicare, many insurance men decided to join it. For months, dozens of private companies have been competing for one-year renewable contracts, under which they would become "fiscal intermediaries" between the Government and the nation's 6,471 registered hospitals when medicare goes into effect. Last week, pronouncing the occasion "the beginning of a partnership of great promise," Health, Education and Welfare Department Secretary John...
...parallel for the first time to plaster "bloodless" military installations in North Viet Nam. In return, the Viet Cong blew up a U.S. enlisted men's billet in the port city of Qui Nhon. This time the U.S. and South Viet Nam replied with a joint 160-plane raid...
...Ayub's winter-bound capital of Rawalpindi, war fever still runs high. Sandbags are piled around government buildings, air-raid trenches kept clear and ready. In the brunt of the summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...