Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land, noting once that his hunters had "managed to get two monkeys, a parrot and a dove." He determined "to write to Sartre and B. Russell to have them organize an international fund to help the Bolivian Liberation Movement." Shortly after his troops staged their first hit-and-run attack on the army, killing seven men, Che gloated: "Perhaps this is the first episode of a new Viet Nam." On his birthday, June 14, 1967, he wrote: "I have reached thirty-nine, and inexorably the age is approaching that forces me to think of my future as a guerrilla fighter...
They broke the pattern only once, seemingly unable to resist a Fourth of July attack somewhere on U.S. troops. Early on the Fourth, they opened up with a 500-round mortar and rocket barrage on Dau Tieng, a U.S. fire base 38 miles northwest of Saigon. They followed up the barrage with a ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches...
Such stockpiling leads allied intelligence officers to believe that the next attack on Saigon will be longer, better coordinated than before and aimed at striking deeper into the capital-at the First District, the downtown seat of commerce and government. They also believe that attacks will be made at the same time on smaller cities the length of South Viet Nam, as in the Tet offensive. Allied units have reported buildups of Communist troop concentrations, for example, in the vicinity of both Hue and Danang...
Died. Fritz Bauer, 64, Jewish lawyer who survived the horrors of Hitler's concentration camps to become West Germany's most renowned Nazi hunter; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt. Called the "conscience of his country," Bauer was named chief prosecutor of the state of Hesse in 1956, ultimately brought hundreds of fugitives to justice, including the notorious Auschwitz adjutant Karl Höcker. Died. Donald A. Hall, 69, engineering genius who designed Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in San Diego. "CAN YOU CONSTRUCT PLANE CAPABLE FLYING NONSTOP BETWEEN NEW YORK...
...good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage, in 1959 became its chief judge, and last January was named the first American to head the Curia's Congregation of Sacraments...