Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time, Dagger Thrust is a valuable new tactic.Since the task force's troops are always based at sea rather than in shore installations, security can be complete-and so can the surprise of the stab. Near Danang, the marines were using a new device to smoke the V.C. out: portable smoke generators to spot the updraft from concealed tunnel entrances...
From 300 yds., only the black snout of a machine gun could be seen, poking between green spikes of wild rhubarb on the black slate ridge. Smoke from Chinese cooking fires rose in the clear air. "Let's get a closer look," said the Indian officer, clambering down to the road. "If the Chinkos open fire, get down and we'll take care of the rest." Our group of four moved forward, flanked by three jawans with automatic rifles and covered by others in the granite-block fortifications behind us. Around a curve we came on a group...
...strike begins with the request of a Vietnamese province chief, whose Vietnamese divisional commander must approve. Tactical Air Control centers in Saigon or Danang send out the planes, which are preceded to the target by a FAC (Forward Air Controller) plane. FAC marks the exact target with a smoke rocket, and the attackers then "hit the smoke," usually with remarkable accuracy...
...answer to pollution is a scheme that has proved successful in the Ruhr. Flowing through West Germany's most concentrated industrial region, the river remains clean enough for swimming and boating within the shadow of smoke stacks - all because of the Ruhrverband, a cooperative society of 250 municipalities and 2,200 industries along the river. The society gets results with a simple principle: he who pollutes the waters must pay the cost of purification. Carefully calculated assessments have enabled the Verband to build 102 purification plants since 1948, and encourage members to clean up their own wastes. The Ruhr...
...World War II Teutons are Dumkopfs, and the prisoners run rings around their captors, blackmailing them into submission with dark hints that if anything goes wrong at the camp, Hitler will send them all marching off to the Russian front. So they allow the captives to print money, smoke their cigars-to do everything in short but escape. It's slapstick Stalag 17, but just funny enough to keep viewers happily...