Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early last week U.S. bombings continued in North Viet Nam. Although the U.S. made no point of publicizing the damage, the raids added to the growing toll that included bridges, highways, communications centers and factory facilities (see cut). Then there was a little lull in the raids against the North. This aroused some talk among pundits that the pause might be an Administration ploy to give Hanoi a breathing spell that could lead to negotiations. Maybe. But bombings of Viet Cong encampments in the South continued. Indeed, there may have been a good deal of truth in the assessment...
...sniper fire kept on. At week's end, a group of snipers popped up in the evacuation base at Haina, twelve miles west of Santo Domingo, and killed a marine warrant officer, while three more paratroopers were wounded in the city proper. By now, the U.S. casualty toll was 13 dead, 72 wounded. Offshore cruised a 32-ship U.S. task force. On board were more U.S. Marines ready and waiting...
...82nd Airborne Division rolled out of San Isidro airbase, 14 miles away on the other side of the city. Linking up with loyal Dominican troops, the G.I.s drove up to the bridge spanning the Ozama River ?and into another volley of rebel fire. Three hours passed and the casualty toll mounted to 20 wounded before the U.S. forces could declare their objectives secured: the paratroopers to clear the approaches to the Duarte Bridge into Santo Domingo, the marines to carve a 3.5-sq.-mi. "international zone" out of the city as a refuge for U.S. nationals and anyone else...
...Denver suburb of Greenwood Village (pop. 600), a grand jury has indicted two top officials for running what may be the most brazen traffic-fine racket in the U.S. For six years, charged the jury, Greenwood Village used the public highways as a "personal toll road" that raked in $100,000 for the town by means of "a court scheme that was a sham, a mockery, a fraud and simply a system to exact tribute from unsuspecting motorists...
...purpose is to expose this version as a falsehood that has graduated, over the years, into a Southern mystique. His book presents compelling arguments that Selma is the predictable heritage of a South that, though losing a war, at once conspired to evade the moral indemnity that was its toll...