Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stalks love like a wary hunter, but has no time or target-not even the mellowing Communists-for hate...
Beehives. Eighteen hours after the Christmas truce ended, the Communists struck in earnest. Their target was a 100-ft.-high hill near Bong Son on the edge of the Central Highlands where a U.S. battery of 155-mm. howitzers and another of 105 mm. had been dug in for a month. Three platoons of the 1st Cavalry were on duty defending the twelve big guns and their crews. Under cover of evening rain, elements of North Viet Nam's 22nd Regiment slithered up the hill, snipping the detonating wires of Claymore mines strung round the camp, and neutralizing trip...
President Johnson, in his fourth State of the Union message, insists that civilians "are not the sole target for our bombs." The Long Island newspaper Newsday hails Johnson's address as "a magnificent testament...
REDSTONE: Circular error probability, target systems, pipeline requirements, deterrent gaps . . . counterinsurgency . . . soft target...
...biggest target was the rugged, bomb-pocked Demilitarized Zone, where two North Vietnamese divisions have been massing for several months and funneling forces over the border. Last week one battalion of the 26th Marine Regiment had been searching for infiltrating forces for two days, when the infiltrators suddenly turned up under cover of fog and attacked two Marine positions. To back up the Marines, B-52 bombers swarmed in from Guam for the second straight week and blasted the area around the zone...