Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the siegeworks complete, fully 6,000 fresh Communist troops waited silently in the jungles around Plei Me. They had carefully set up another Dong Xoai-style battle, hoping to draw relief force after relief force into a merciless meat grinder. At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Reds turned the handle...
...Corps headquarters in Pleiku, a government relief force was quickly assembled but more cautiously dispatched. While its tanks, M-113 armored personnel carriers, artillery and a thousand infantrymen crept in by road, a helicopter landing force of 250 Vietnamese Rangers dropped boldly into Plei Me at first light. Commanded by burly, boulder-bellied U.S. Army Major Charles H. Beckwith, 36, of Atlanta, the Rangers quickly filled the vacuum caused by the Reds' initial assault...
...Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against...
...races-African, Asian, European and Arab-Jomo Kenyatta has forged the closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever before, much to the relief of whites and Asians who might otherwise feel their random wrath...
...miles south of Key West. And then there was the distraught exile who could not get up the price of a boat to Cuba to get his family out, and unsuccessfully tried to hijack a National Airlines Electra bound from Miami to Key West. Washington could only sigh with relief that an agreement for a "safe and orderly" evacuation apparently was near...