Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fishhook forces sealed off a triangular area of some 50-square miles. With any luck, they may find most of the 7th North Vietnamese Division trapped inside, and perhaps the 5th Viet Cong Division as well. But the main objective is the so-called Central Office for South Viet Nam, the field office from which Hanoi runs its political and military operations in the southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker...
...more recent case is also under investigation. Five Marine enlisted men have been charged with murdering eleven children and five women last month at the hamlet of Son Thang, about 27 miles south of Danang. All are members of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Division's 7th Regiment. A military board convened at Danang last week and will decide whether the five must face court-martial...
Chances for Success. In the first weeks of 1970, Thieu replaced the chiefs of six provinces that remain particular Viet Cong trouble spots. He also shifted commanders of two sensitive military regions: a special tactical zone west of Saigon, where Communist troops have recently stepped up infiltration, and the 7th ARVN Division in the northern Mekong Delta, an arena that could serve as a major testing ground of the initial, tentative steps toward Vietnamization. Long considered a weak link in ARVN, the 7th has a tough new commander to lead it against the 8,000 North Vietnamese troops prowling...
Since the March 7th eclipse is the last total eclipse to pass near a heavily populated area of the U.S. in this century, local amateur astronomers plan to congregate on Nantucket Island. The moon will cover all but 2 per cent of sun in Boston, but that 2 per cent of sunlight will be enough to drown out the sun's faint corona...