Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there had been six other Soviet border transgressions on Chen Pao Island, site of the Ussuri fighting. At least two of these, China asserted, involved trucks and armored vehicles. The New China News Agency warned Moscow that "hundreds of millions of army men and civilians are on the alert. If you have the audacity to continue attacking China, you will be crushed to pieces by the iron fists of the 700 million Chinese people...
Only Desk Soldiers. There was good reason for staying alert. Where the Communists had elected to do battle, they fought fiercely, even suicidally. Communist attackers threw themselves against a brigade headquarters of the U.S. 25th Division at Dau Tieng, an abandoned rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Saigon, damaging six helicopters and shooting down two others that attempted to get off the ground. At Long Binh, the sprawling U.S. Army Viet Nam headquarters northeast of Saigon, a guerrilla force led by a few regulars was beaten back at the wire with the loss of 132 men. A prisoner taken...
...month-long coma and his brothers knew that he was dying, they decided to let the hospital remove as many organs as possible for transplants in the hope of prolonging life for others. Last week, when the unidentified patient died, a huge surgical complex, which had been on standby alert for a week, moved into swift and multiple action...
Their cadres had earlier spread word that 21 government troopers would die -one for each of the guerrillas slain in the January encounters. Brigadier General Vicente Raval, who commands the Constabulary, put his forces on alert. But within hours, a band of about 20 Huks ambushed a twelve-man government detail, killing two and wounding nine. Three days later, another group shot up an army Jeep. A lieutenant and two other soldiers died in the fusillade; the lieutenant's four-year-old son was wounded, and only one passenger escaped unharmed...
...tear gas and clubs failed to break up the demonstration, the police departed under a fusillade of insults. By then, three dozen students and police had been injured; five people, four of them Duke students, were arrested. Governor Robert W. Scott quickly placed the North Carolina National Guard on alert...