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- As Owen had said: Hanoi could handle it.† (source)
- Or some dumb jingo in his hard hat and Bomb Hanoi button, or one of LBJ's pretty daughters, or Westmoreland's whole handsome family-nephews and nieces and baby grandson.† (source)
- He had just joined the DIA when the army and air force had pulled off the daring raid on the Song Tay prison camp twenty miles west of Hanoi.† (source)
- … One morning while the wife and kids were swimming, a stray jet from Hanoi strafed the area killing the three of them.† (source)
- Who wouldn't be changed after winning two Congressional Medals of Honor and having personally captured General Giap after a firefight on the outskirts of Hanoi?† (source)
- "WHY DON'T YOU GO THROW UP ON HANOI INSTEAD?"† (source)
- That was what had prompted Owen to say: "I THINK HANOI CAN HANDLE IT."† (source)
- "WE SHOULD SEND HESTER TO HANOI," he told me.† (source)
- Hanoi's counterintelligence forces broke and executed scores of Medusa personnel.† (source)
- He had his own private war and it was way behind enemy lines, the nearer Hanoi the better.† (source)
- For a time I lived with friends in a hamlet outside Hanoi.† (source)
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- But you didn't consider Hanoi's own field personnel who had infiltrated Medusa; those records exist.† (source)
- Hanoi knew the Medusans weren't combat troops; they wore no uniforms.† (source)
- Hanoi disclaimed it; Saigon said it wasn't ours.† (source)
- Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum in Hanoi.† (source)
- NATURALLY, HANOI AND THE VIET CONG WILL NOT NEGOTIATE FOR A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT IF THEY THINK THEY CAN WIN THE WAR!† (source)
- It was Christmas, 1972, when President Nixon bombed Hanoi; that was an eleven-day attack, employing more than forty thousand tons of high explosives.† (source)
- Those were brief days and nights; we tried to remember which government spokesman had said that Operation Rolling Thunder was "closing in on Hanoi."† (source)
- In the fall of 1966, Operation Rolling Thunder was said to be "closing in on Hanoi"; but Owen Meany said, "I THINK HANOI CAN HANDLE IT."† (source)
- THERE'S EVERY REASON FOR THE UNITED STATES TO KEEP ENOUGH OF OUR GROUND FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM TO PERSUADE HANOI AND THE VIET GONG THAT THEY COULD NEVER ACHIEVE A MILITARY VICTORY.† (source)
- It was a Sunday in May when he called me from the monument shop; U.S. planes had just bombed a power plant in Hanoi, and Hester had only recently returned from a huge antiwar protest rally in New York.† (source)
- Born in Haiphong, raised in Hanoi.† (source)
- In military science class, we followed battles, skirmishes, and troop movements; we planned imaginary landings of assault troops near Haiphong, envelopments of Hanoi, the mining of rivers, and the limited use of nuclear warheads.† (source)
- As had been learned in missions over Hanoi—in which the B-52 had participated and sustained SAM (surface-to-air missile) damage—the best method of attacking a heavily defended target was to converge from all points of the compass at once, "like the enveloping arms of an angry bear," the squadron commander had put it at the briefing, indulging his poetic nature.† (source)
- Hanoi?† (source)
- Cain's one of the side issues contained in our constant pressure on Hanoi to trace MIAs," explained Knowlton.† (source)
- Then Hanoi found out that Webb's younger brother was an army officer in Saigon, and having studied Delta-knowing the brothers were close-decided to mount a trap; they had nothing to lose.† (source)
- So was another man Webb didn't know about; a white man who'd been bought by Hanoi, an expert in communications who could assemble the electronic components of a high-frequency radio in the dark.† (source)
- Seventy-three Americans, forty-six French, thirty-nine and twenty-four Australians and British respectively, and an estimated fifty white male contacts recruited from neutrals in Hanoi and trained in the field-most of them we never knew.† (source)
- I would argue lamely for peace in Vietnam while my students clamored for the H-bombing of Hanoi and the subsequent obliteration of Moscow and Peking.† (source)
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