Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes in Saigon, where Buddhist demonstrators took fitfully to the streets-only to be dispersed by tough, green-clad riot cops. But beneath the sound and fury, the basic directions of the conflict were quite clear and quite...
...reconnaissance planes of the Thirteenth Air Force's 632nd Combat Support Group scream off and within minutes are over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. From Korat, the jet afterburners of F-105s and F-4Cs of the 6234th Tactical Fighter Wing light up the night sky. Some 20,000 U.S. servicemen are already stationed in Thailand, and 10,000 more, including three additional squadrons of fighter-bombers, are due by year...
...said one young priest. "The problem is vital, not only for the church in Spain but for Spain itself. Authoritarian governments do not solve problems. They merely postpone them." And what will happen if the church continues its old course? "The lid may blow off and carry the scandal sky-high...
...Haiphong, the "airdales" roared in and struck the site, sending up spiraling smoke from a secondary explosion-probably a missile. Even when two SAMs were fired near Vinh at night, Air Force Phantoms could avoid them. "They looked like Roman candles," said one U.S. pilot, "lighting up the night sky." All told, only 14 of the 243 U.S. planes lost over North Viet Nam have fallen to missiles...
...plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty of business is consummated as well...