Word: sault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudd stubbornly declined aid and limped home. The policeman did not bother to take down his name; except for a call to his credit-card companies, Rudd made no effort to report the as sault. "What was the use?" he sighs...
...signs that the lull in enemy activity has been directed by Hanoi as a sign of good faith. We still believe that the enemy is refitting for another offensive." Supporting his view was the fact that prisoner interrogations and captured documents continued to indicate that a November as sault was planned. The U.S., for its part, maintained its bombing raids against North Viet Nam's panhandle-roughly from the 17th to the 19th parallels. Early last week, bomber pilots flew 139 missions, the most in nearly a month. The next day, regardless of worsening weather, they flew...
JOHN A. CURRAN Managing Editor The Sault Daily Star Sault Ste. Marie...
...combined American-Vietnamese sweep called Coronado II, four battalions from the 9th and 25th Divisions were helilifted into the area; two others swarmed ashore from river as sault boats. The Americans' job was to link up with ten South Vietnamese battalions to make a 250-sq.-mi. rectangle surrounding the V.C. battalions. While the perimeter formed, two battalions of tough South Vietnamese Marines came clattering in by copter to flush out the quarry. By chance, the Marines landed squarely in the midst of a crack V.C. outfit. At once they were in a furious firefight and the Marine commander...
...Heartland. The great Communist force that was thought to be in the area never materialized. The Communists could have heard of the as sault's imminence through an intelligence breach, could have been expecting a U.S. drive in that area anyway, or could simply have decamped when the first bombers appeared. "If we get in there and don't kill anybody and don't find anything, it will be embarrassing," said Lieut. General Jonathan O. Seaman, commander of the operation, expressing disappointment at the first results. "Sometimes knowing what isn't there can be valuable...