Word: commando
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...prisoners in North Viet Nam. From Saigon, Correspondent James Willwerth cabled that he was personally convinced that there had been no security leak on the abortive Son Tay raid: "Most military and intelligence people in Saigon simply weren't given the details of the air strikes or the commando raid. They hadn't seen the script." In Washington, Correspondent William Mader, who has followed the plight of the prisoners all along, talked with concerned Government officials and with the wives of the men. "What impressed me most was the immense quiet courage and fortitude of the wives...
...same time, Nixon asked the military for some unconventional rescue ideas. Contingency plans for commando search-and-rescue missions into North Viet Nam already existed, and a number of similar raids had been carried out in enemy-held areas of South Viet Nam over the years. (Significantly, none of them had ever found a single live prisoner either, but the omen was discounted.) Eventually, Laird told the President that his intelligence people had recommended a P.O.W. camp at Son Tay as a likely target for search and rescue. Nixon was enthusiastic. On Aug. 11 he gave a go-ahead...
...retaliation for the commando raid and bombing of North Vietnam, attacks will be carried out on pigs, military and government buildings and agents without warning," the letter said...
That seemed to be a fragile hope. Skirmishes between Hussein's cocky army and the fedayeen last week left 14 people dead and 69 injured. The guerrillas, meanwhile, were also mending their political fences. In September, there were eleven commando groups in the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat. As of last week, six had been absorbed by stronger groups. A new unified command, to be called the Palestine Liberation Front, is evolving under Arafat's direction...
Harvard faculty members reacted yesterday with disappointment, but not surprise, to U. S. bombing and commando raids on North Vietnam last weekend...