Word: arrivees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The tangled jungle scrub of Cu Chi lies only 20 miles northwest of Saigon. For nearly two decades it has been the impregnable preserve of the Viet Cong -until one bright sunny morning when unexpected guests arrive. They are some 80 Armored Personnel Carriers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division...
The American attackers know no such frugality of fire. The APCs grind to a halt; there is a rumble from the rear; and volley after volley of 105-mm. shells whispers overhead to crash down among the enemy in an endless, earthshaking, invisible whiplash of steel. Then the U.S. warplanes...
For the Viet Cong of the South, there are other problems. One of the biggest is the presence of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars that Giap has sent down the Ho Chi Minh trail in the past year. Regional distrust and dislike between northerners and southerners in Viet Nam...
But in London, Leeds or Liverpool, the average person was hardly aware that anything was wrong. Food prices stabilized after an initial upward flurry as supplies from the Continent continued to arrive in foreign ships. Unable to export for lack of ships, British automakers simply upped their production of right...
Chasing down stories in Saigon itself becomes so exasperating that, for many of the press corps, a chance to go into the field with the troops comes as a welcome relief. "It may sound corny," explains the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie, "but it's refreshing to...