Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yellow Jackets. Last week in Djakarta, the fall of Sukarno was made complete. Gone were the giant billboards that once portrayed him as a people's hero kicking Uncle Sam in the tail. Instead, the city's fences and walls were covered with neatly scrawled slogans such as "Go to Hell, Marxism." Gone were the Communist mobs that had made the U.S. embassy their favorite battleground, gone too the armed youth cadres that had marched daily through Djakarta, singing America, Satan of the World. Demonstrators still surged through the streets, but they wore the yellow jackets...
...ugly parade through downtown Hanoi, captured U.S. prisoners of war, handcuffed in pairs, were subjected to the insults of howling mobs. And the Communists tried to stem "the Rolling Thunder," as U.S. strikes over the North are code-named, by unleashing all the tricks of its air-defense system: SAM missiles, curtains of conventional flak, and forays by MIG-21 fighters...
With each sortie, too, goes an "Iron Handle" of four suppressor planes-one a pathfinder able to finger SAM radar signals, the three others armed with rockets, notably the 10-ft. Shrike, which homes in on radar radiations. Last week Iron Handle flights hit ten SAM installations out of the total estimated 100 sites in North Viet Nam. Though the SAMs have had little direct success-bringing down 14 U.S. planes out of 296 launchings in the year since the first was fired -they do aid the enemy in another respect. Because SAMs are most effective at high altitudes, they...
...their most important feature. Classified ads spill over onto the front page, and the news columns often promote the latest offerings of local merchants. Even so, the morning Mobile (Ala.) Register (circ. 46,905) and the afternoon Mobile Press (circ. 71,483) had understandable attractions for Publisher Sam Newhouse: the only dailies in town, they are moneymakers, and they offer one more foothold in the burgeoning Gulf Coast region where the Newhouse empire has been busily expanding.* So Sam "bought" Mobile...
...such nicety troubled Baltimore's Police Commissioner Bernard J. Schmidt (since resigned under fire), who was understandably anxious to catch Earl and Sam Veney, the Negro brothers who killed one policeman and gravely wounded another while robbing a liquor store on Christmas Eve, 1964. Schmidt set out to catch the Veneys with a flying squad of 50 to 60 men armed with submachine guns, tear gas and bulletproof vests. Acting almost entirely on anonymous tips, which they never verified, the squad spent 19 days in round-the-clock raids of more than 300 houses in Negro neighborhoods. They...