Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactic of leap and smash was perfected in 53 major operations-more than one a week-that ranged from the la Drang Valley ("the Valley of Death," as the division remembers it) to the Bong Son Plains, hard by the South China Sea. Its 430 choppers, flying from a carefully cropped launch pad outside An Khe, have carried men and whole batteries of snub-nosed 105s and 155s into places no one would have imagined. The Air Cav's noisy "gunships" have developed to a fine art the use of their rocket artillery in close support of the heliborne...
Amendment. Specifically, Congress has authorized Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans to vote in state elections, thus overruling a New York law that required English literacy. As the court saw it, that tactic was a rational means of enforcing the Puerto Ricans' 14th Amendment right to equal treatment...
Viet Nam has become the classic arena for the Communist use of the tactic of terror, which Mallin rightly defines as violence inflicted by armed men on helpless civilians. Whether it be mining of roads, machine-gunning of buses, kidnaping villagers, burning homes, or torture and murder, the Viet Cong employ "brutality with a purpose": to destroy the morale of the Vietnamese citizenry and discredit the Saigon government. Any opportunity will do. When typhoon rains caused massive flooding in the fall of 1964, the Viet Cong fired repeatedly at evacuation helicopters carrying civilians...
...first order of magnitude." Understandably, Catholicism's hierarchical leaders are uncertain as to how to deal with this new, nothing-sacred, questioning attitude. While the instinct of many bishops is to return to the traditional methods of control, suppression, denunciation and excommunication, Thorman points out that such a tactic cannot be applied to Catholic intellectuals who no longer fear authority. Yet church leaders fear that total freedom to question and doubt is to open Catholicism's doors to a plague of heresy and half-truth. It is a dilemma that seriously concerns Pope Paul VI, who in recent...
Tracers lit the night sky over the airport, the power plant and the army camp; the A.N.C. resorted to its time-tested tactic of shedding clothes, shoes and weapons and fleeing to safety. Still, 50 men died in the fighting, and the Kats quickly gained control of downtown Kisangani, where last week they claimed that their rebellion had been triggered by A.N.C. discrimination and the fact that many of them had not been paid in three months...