Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From Wire Dispatches
...From Wire Dispatches
...minutes later, after Schulte had drifted back to his bunker, the base exploded. Hundreds of mortar shells arced down out of the moonless sky with uncanny accuracy. Hunkered down in their bunkers, the G.I.s never even saw the 50 or so North Vietnamese sappers who slipped through the perimeter wire, wearing nothing but shorts, black grease and strings of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). One group wiped out the 155-mm. howitzers, another tossed tear gas grenades and satchel charges into the TOC, killing or wounding virtually everyone inside. Methodically, the others went from bunker to bunker, blowing them with satchel...
Only twelve enemy bodies were found on the base-one of them stark naked, snared in the perimeter wire. U.S. casualties? The first thing Schulte noticed was that "there were very few people who could walk." All twelve officers had been killed or wounded, and an enlisted man with the equivalent rank of buck sergeant had assumed command. Only at daybreak did the full extent of the massacre become clear. The official count, which seemed on the low side to some officials, was 33 dead and 76 wounded of 200 Americans. Of the 28 South Vietnamese troops in the base...
Water Cannon. The protests were timed to coincide with the Brussels meeting of the E.E.C.'s agricultural ministers. Behind a protective barrier of concertina wire, water cannon and heavily armed cops, the ministers are trying to thresh out solutions to the Common Market's troublesome agricultural crisis...