Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regiments fight down to 400 or 500 men before pulling them back to refit. Giap, moreover, has been uncharacteristically reckless in his use of tanks. A U.S. officer in Saigon who saw tank duty in World War II says: "I never saw the Germans or ourselves expend armor at a rate comparable to the North Vietnamese. Last week they moved 25 tanks east of Quang Tri in broad daylight. All of them were destroyed or damaged. That's kind of foolhardy...
...NORTH. The Communists resumed with a vengeance their offensive just below the Demilitarized Zone, where South Vietnamese troops had stopped the initial invasion four weeks ago. Charging at night and under clouds that held U.S. and South Vietnamese air attacks to a minimum last week, enemy armor and infantry overran Dong Ha and encircled Quang Tri city. Farther south, battered ARVN troops were driven from long-besieged Firebase Bastogne, opening the way for an enemy drive on Hue, the ancient imperial capital. A drive on Hue, in turn, could pose a direct threat to U.S. troops guarding an American base...
...north, Giap's 35,000 troops were stalemated by ARVN defenders around Hué and Quang Tri. North of the latter last week, a clever South Vietnamese marine commander simply evacuated his base after learning of an impending Communist night armor attack; when the North Vietnamese drove into the base, the marines opened fire from the perimeter, knocking out at least five tanks and killing scores of enemy troops. Another Communist armored force roared east on Highway 9 in the darkness, but missed the turn to its objective, Dong Ha. When the sun rose, the parked, puzzled Communists found...
...ARVN was good, it was very, very good. At Dong Ha, a town of rude wooden shacks and prosperous brick houses ten miles south of the DMZ on the banks of the Cua Viet River, one vital North Vietnamese objective was spiked by the tanks of the tough 20th Armored Squadron. As the Communist spearhead rolled south on Highway 1, the 34-ton M-48s of the 20th sped north. They met-and stopped-the Communist armor a scant 300 yards north of the Cua Viet bridge. The tankers and two companies of South Vietnamese marines held the bridge long...
...their experience: Nancy Grossman's leather-bound heads, for instance, are veritable nightmares of repression. "The work is me, my experience," says Grossman. "Everyone is a sadomasochist. The difference between me and other artists is that I admit it." So her masks, like Mary, 1971, are both armor and prison; the face and the implied personality behind it are abolished by the protective skin...