Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slashed into the town of Ca Mau, seized the provincial hospital and held it for eleven hours before finally being driven out, leaving 275 of their dead behind. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion of the enemy and killed 164. The Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket...
...Dinh province. All told, the capital district has 206,000 new refugees living in 114 temporary quarters and camps. It will probably take eight months to find adequate new housing for them all. For once, the Saigonese have given the government good marks-for its prompt aid to the refugees. There has also been a noticeable decrease in neutralism among the populace, which seems to be swinging more toward antiCommunism. The South Vietnamese army is getting an unprecedented average of 300 volunteers a day from the Saigon area...
...blows left the Delta stunned -disoriented, inert, and so traumatized that it could not even assess its own wounds. But now there is a stirring in hot, flat, sunbaked IV Corps, a probing of wounds, an application of first aid, and even plans for recovery...
...pipelines" for drinking water are the donkeys that carry it on their backs to the cities from nearby water holes. The country's first five-year economic plan was so modest that Planning Ministry Director Ahmed Botan described it as "a collection of wishes dependent wholly on foreign aid...
...star such as Villella or Melissa Hayden can make $20,000 a year, the girls in the New York City's corps de ballet average $7,000. Top pay in the Joffrey troupe is $10,000. Most of the ballet masters see some sort of state or Government aid-a commonplace in Europe-as their only prospect for solvency...