Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over Hawaii in the third orbit, Grissom slowed the ship for re-entry. Though Molly Brown missed her landing target by 53 miles, officials were pleased with...
Since the desire to dramatize the Negro plight goes hand in hand with the more substantive drive to achieve equal rights, Selma seemed a natural target to Martin Luther King. The city's civil rights record was awful. There was Clark, the perfect public villain. There, too, was Mayor Joe T. Smitherman, 35, an erstwhile appliance dealer, an all-out segregationist, and a close friend of Alabama's racist Democratic Governor George Wallace...
...Vietnamese means "paradise." To its garrison of South Vietnamese defenders it appears more like a death trap. Hemmed in on one side by mountains, on the other by the sea, Bongson focuses a railroad, a river and the north-south coast highway, Route 1, into a single, strategic target. Last week Viet Cong campfires cast a brazen glow on the hills outside of town, while in Bong-son's main fort-rimmed with barbed wire and booby traps-soldiers and civil guards had grown so accustomed to attacks that they did not even stop eating when Communist snipers began...
...Target: Elephants. The steady Communist pressure in the Bongson area was beginning to be felt at Danang-only 120 miles to the north, and the site of the airbase from which most of the U.S. air strikes into North Viet Nam are mounted. At week's end, Viet Cong main-force units attacked in strength just 40 miles southwest of Danang, pinning down three battalions of South Vietnamese and killing a regimental commander. He and five aides were found burned to death in an ambushed armored personnel carrier...
Danang, with its airfield, deep-water port facilities and 100,000 population, its U.S. and Vietnamese attack bomb ers, assault helicopters and transports, is a prime target. The three Hawk antiaircraft batteries clustered at Danang since February, with their 36 antiaircraft missiles, add to the target potential of the Danang aviary. From their own strongholds on Monkey Mountain, just west of the base, the Viet Cong are in a good position to clip the claws of those raptors...