Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Changed Tactics. The strategist behind the siege is Colonel Tran Dinh Xu, the Communist commander for the capital district. At night, his rocketeers slip to within range of the city, often using, for the sake of speed, crude earthworks and bamboo racks rather than unwieldy launcher tubes to aim their whispering death on Saigon. Easily broken down into sections-a 2-lb. fuse, a 41-lb. warhead and a 59-lb. motor section-the rockets can be carried by porters, are quickly assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise...
...admired his charm, his boundless energy and his decisiveness, Ky retained powerful friends in the Vietnamese armed forces-an entourage rated strong enough to overthrow Thieu if it ever came to a showdown. But with Tet and the harrowing onslaught against the Saigon government, the U.S., for the sake of preserving unity in the crisis, could no longer afford to balance between Thieu and Ky. Washington threw its support squarely behind Thieu, and Ky felt left...
...line conservative enough to leave her dad in left field. Maureen has toured for the ultra-rightist Constitutional Alliance, recorded folk songs (sample lyrics: "If you fight and your belief is right You'll never let freedom die"), and visited more than 100 cities for the sake of conservatism. Maureen sports a conservative hemline as well. "I sit on a lot of platforms," she says, "and I don't want to worry about where my dress...
...sounded like dry wood snapping," said Dick Tuck of the Kennedy staff). The sounds of revelry churned into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
...that the drive for a nuclear non-proliferation treaty began only after Kennedy publicly raised the issue in a 1965 Senate speech. They didn't see that Kennedy meant as much to the frenzied crowds as they did to him. They refused to take his humor for its own sake, but insisted it was his sly reaction to the "ruthlessness...