Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next came a riverboat foray in the Mekong Delta ("We took some sniper fire"). After that, Owen got his chance to go out with the 1st Infantry in the "boonies" near Lai Khe. Save for Providence Journal stitched over his left shirt pocket, he was garbed-and armed -like every other foot slogger in the detachment...
...troops in full battle dress rolled into the city's downtown rebel zone. Within an hour, the OAS soldiers set up sandbagged emplacements throughout the l-sq.-mi. stronghold that leftist rebel partisans still call "sacred revolutionary soil." Shouted curses and a few harmless sniper shots greeted the troops. Most of the city's 500,000 frightened citizens could give thanks that the OAS was acting in the nick of time to prevent the Dominican Republic from plunging into a bloody replay of last April's civil...
Twice the U.S. offered to fly him home in hopes he could impose some leadership on the rebels, who were waging a vicious sniper war against peacekeeping U.S. troops. Twice Bosch refused. "I am not the man to correct mistakes caused by U.S. intervention," he said. "I am not prepared to deal with the thousands of Communists that American actions are creating...
...foolhardy sniper who leaped out of a camouflaged hole one evening last week and fired a shot at a group of U.S. marines on the prowl for the Viet Cong. His zeal was costly. Approaching the "spider trap," the marines tossed in some grenades, and out popped four willing prisoners. Suddenly another burst of gunfire came from the hole. Big hole, the marines shrugged, tossing in more grenades. When the concealed V.C. responded with still another fusillade, a U.S. demolition squad provided a real blast, using dynamite this time. When the smoke cleared, the marines clambered down into the hole...
...while police and deputy sheriffs followed them, arresting anyone on the street. Guardsmen killed a second Negro whom they found looting a store. Another of the Negro victims killed had incredibly taken up a post on a rooftop overlooking Watts's 77th Street precinct station. As he directed sniper fire at police and soldiers below, a Guardsman wheeled, drilled him cleanly through the head with a rifle bullet. But the war-weary police were still doing most of the yeomen work. They shot four looters dead in stores they were sacking, fought a pitched gun battle with several others...