Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation was so politically sensitive that the U. S. Command imposed a news blackout and refused comment on two charges by Hanoi...
That five U. S. bombers and one helicopter were shot down during the around-the-clock bombing of North Vietnam that began before dawn Saturday, Saigon time...
...said U. S. warplanes "repeatedly attacked many populated areas, communication lines and economic establishments in Quang Bing and Ha Tinh provinces" in the southern-most corner of North Vietnam, which borders Laos below the 19th parallel. "Many flights...
Highly placed U. S. sources said the Nixon administration was willing to gamble on the political consequences of resuming heavy raids over North Vietnam because some U. S. officials were unable to resist going after what they considered to be lucrative targets...
...sources said the Pentagon seized on the downing of an unarmed American reconnaissance jet on Nov. 13 as justification for retaliatory raids, although a Pentagon spokesman said that since then other U. S. reconnaissance planes had been fired on but not hit. But the U. S. Command in Saigon had insisted since the Nov. 13 episode that it had no reports of American aircraft being fired...