Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid $180,202 to repair 36,525 broken windows. Damage to Los Angeles schools totals $125,000 from fires, $30,000 from malicious mischief, and $250,000 from thefts. In Detroit, vandalism and thefts cost the schools $415,000 and their insurance coverage. New York's official toll of major vandalism was $1,500,000-not including "minor items" such as furniture breakage and defaced walls, for which the school system had to pay more than...
...long string of aggressive campaigns stretching back to the first major U.S. North Vietnamese battle in the la Drang Valley in 1965, American fighting men time and again bested Hanoi's best; they have prevented the Communists from getting a major offensive of their own under way. The combat toll in Red manpower, Hanoi's most precious asset, has been horrendous: 50,000 Communist dead so far this year alone. By frequent ground sweeps and incessant bombing, the U.S. has destroyed the sanctuaries in mountain and jungle that the enemy so long enjoyed. On the brink of falling...
...cumulative U.S. effort in the fighting war, and the steady bombing of supply lines from North Viet Nam, is taking its toll on the Viet Cong. It has, after all, jeen only a year since General Westmoreland got sufficient manpower to begin to apply genuine pressure. With average losses as high as 15,000 a month this year, the Communists may be starting to feel a manpower pinch of their own. Recruitment for the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam is down to between 3,000 and 5,500 a month. Infiltration from North Viet Nam has been held steady...
...storm finally abating, Rescue Pilot Don Sheldon spotted a body near the 18,000-ft. camp; two more were sighted later. By week's end officials abandoned hope of saving the four other missing men. In one savage thrust, Mount McKinley had almost doubled its total recorded toll...
...there are some understandable reasons for them. The Vietnamese have been fighting for 20 years, in successive generations of young men, and the whole military fabric is frayed by the invisible cumulative fatigue of what seems like endless war. The long years of combat have taken their toll in officers, often the best; so, too, have the coups and intrigues of Saigon politics over the years...