Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenged the Black Panther Party to a shoot-out and promised to alleviate racial tension in Philadelphia by putting "a tank on every street-corner...
...city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious food shortages. Men dressed in army uniforms use M-79s to threaten shopkeepers, then take whatever they wish. Children who sell gasoline by the pint fight among themselves to pour their wine bottle's worth into the tank of a car for a few hundred riels, about 300. The homeless, the maimed, the wretched, the exhausted squat on the streets, huddle under makeshift canvas stalls...
...Apparently the President also decided that ARVN'S strategic position in the northern and Highlands provinces had eroded beyond repair after the successful Communist attack on Ban Me Thuot two weeks ago. For three days the South Vietnamese forces tried hard to repel a cleverly executed Communist tank and infantry assault on the city, which sits astride Route 14, the main inland north-south road. South Vietnamese air force F-5s and A-37s bombed and strafed Communist positions around the city, while ARVN forces were hurriedly ferried to the outskirts of Ban Me Thuot for what looked initially...
Gavin himself, now chairman of Arthur D. Little Corp., a Cambridge think tank, argues that Thieu's plan of retreat actually bears little resemblance to his own original enclave theory, which was designed as a first tactical step toward extricating U.S. forces from Viet Nam. Gavin is pessimistic about the chances for success of the South Vietnamese strategy. "The difficulties of trying to keep control are so obviously beyond Thieu," he told TIME last week, "and the penetration of Saigon by the North is so great that what I get is a very gloomy picture of Saigon...
...Zagros Mountains of Eastern Iraq reverberated last week with the thud of bombs and tank shells as Iraqi troops moved forcefully against Kurdish dissidents dug in on the snow-covered slopes. The heaviest fighting yet in a rebellion that has dragged on for nearly two decades was startling but expectable. Iraq was finally able to move against the Kurds after patching up relations with Iran, which for years had provided the Kurds with the means to withstand Baghdad's most determined attempts to dislodge them...