Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though their soldiers are frequently supported by tanks and long-range 130-mm. guns. In many sections of the Mekong Delta, as a result of steadily mounting pressure from the small units of Communist troops, security for civilians loyal to the government has all but vanished. In consequence, B-52s have been pounding the Delta, long the showcase of the government's pacification program...
...watch a movie. For the most part, they appear uniformly clean-cut and middleclass. 'It seemed a good place to learn my job and advance my career,' said Captain Claude Hamilton, 28, of Waco, Texas." Asked about the dangers to civilians in the use of B-52s to bomb the heavily populated Mekong Delta (see box, next page), the crewmen insisted that if mistakes are made, it is the responsibility of faulty intelligence, not of the planes and the equipment aboard them...
...roiling subject. But as has happened to many others who have reported it, Viet Nam has taken over her life. Though she now lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she still reads military bulletins the way a horse player studies the form. She knows why the B-52s are striking certain targets. When she gets together with other veterans of Viet Nam reporting like Gloria Emerson, David Halberstam and journalists on leave from Saigon, she says, "The conversation is like talk among butterfly experts-a fraternity of people with the same obsession." ∙Martha Duffy
...which would cost you little and gain your people a rare respite from battle. There are, of course, some visceral reasons why you may be reluctant. Possibly you recoil at the very notion of a settlement that would help to re-elect the man who personally hurled his B-52s against your country. Moreover, as everyone acknowledges by now, you gave a lot more than you got at Geneva 18 years ago last week, when you agreed under pressure from the big powers to abandon your war (against the French, then) and allow the division of Viet Nam into North...
...station, manned by approximately 30 Coast Guardsmen is used primarily to direct B-52s flying from Thailand, according to sources in Chiangmai...