Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Case closed-or so the Administration thought. It was, however, immediately and forcibly reopened. No "ground combat deaths"? The Los Angeles Times last week ran Freelance Journalist Don Schanche's eyewitness account of the death of one U.S. military adviser, Captain Joseph K. Bush Jr., during an enemy attack on a Laotian army compound in February 1969. Confronted with Schanche's story, White House aides sought safety in semantics. Nixon had been accurate, protested White House Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren. Bush was "behind the lines," and therefore a victim only of "hostile enemy action"; most assuredly, Warren...
Instinctive Firing. Shortly after members of his company began talking publicly about the tragedy last November, Medina appeared on television and at a Washington press conference to claim that he saw "no shooting of any innocent civilians whatsoever" in the My Lai attack. He did admit personally killing a woman, explaining that he had fired instinctively, thinking she was armed, when she moved suddenly. He sharply denied the account of one of his soldiers, who said that he saw Medina shoot a boy. The charges against Medina now include those two deaths. They also include the alleged murder...
During the past three months, the substance of Brezhnev's speech has been published in Pravda and discussed at closed party meetings throughout the Soviet Union. By all accounts, it was a scathing attack on shortcomings, waste, inefficiency and mismanagement in the economy (TIME, Jan. 26). Brezhnev spoke of lost productivity because of rampant alcoholism. As one example of mismanagement, he reportedly told of a shipment of four expensive construction cranes from East Germany. All four were shipped clear across the country to Vladivostok, but two of them actually were supposed to go to Odessa. They finally arrived...
Zuckerman is also a lacrosse player, and he has stuck with the lacrosse program here. At Exeter, he was considered by many to be the best attack-man in New England, and as a sophomore here last, year, starting for the varsity, he finished second in scoring on the team and among the top five in the league...
...Terrell forced Gonzalez to run, and with this attack the Crimson senior had a distinct advantage. When Gonzalez dove to save a short lob. Terrell would follow with a deep smash that left Gonzalez a spectator...