Word: tolls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maids; one fell, decapitated, next to the fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests out of their beds, cut telecommunications, dug a huge crater only a few feet from the statue of the Madonna of Peace in John F. Kennedy Square. The final toll for the raid's ten grim minutes: 26 Vietnamese civilians killed and 116 injured...
Serious Consequences. At the eighth session of the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris last week, Ambassador Averell Harriman delivered a blistering condemnation of the Communists' strikes on Saigon. The assaults, he charged, had been planned by North Vietnamese generals, had so far taken a toll of over 100 civilians killed, and could not have been intended to do military damage. "I want to be sure you understand that this is a situation that could have the most serious consequences for these talks," he told Xuan Thuy and Le Due Tho, Hanoi's negotiators. Harriman got his reply...
...time that Westmoreland was purchasing with America's blood and treasure was not on his side. As the war dragged on and the toll of American dead rose to 24,364, support for the war shriveled inside the U.S. The influx of G.I.s Americanized the war, and Westy was too busy to engage in the labyrinthine stratagems needed to galvanize the Vietnamese into an effective defense of their own country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone...
When that failed to silence the Arab cannon, Israeli fighter-bombers streaked over the Jordan and pounded "Long Tom" gun emplacements near Irbid, a town twelve miles inside the cease-fire line. The Jordanians reported 35 dead, mostly civilians, and the Israelis gave their toll as three dead farmers and several injured...
...month, now has the equivalent of a dozen full divisions, or 80,000 men, in the South. If anything, fighting has intensified since talking began, particularly in northernmost I Corps. During the first week of the Paris negotiations, the U.S. suffered 549 battle deaths, the second highest toll...