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Word: arvn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in seven years, a week passed without a single U.S. soldier dying in combat in Indochina. But in that same week, ending Sept. 16, 4,625 North Vietnamese troops reportedly died, as well as 409 South Vietnamese soldiers. Another 1,710 ARVN fighters were hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Continuing Cost of War | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...month of July, American B-52 bombers flew 900 missions over South Viet Nam-111 missions more than were flown in all of 1971. For the first time the big B-52s flying out of Thailand's Utapao Air Base are striking the heavily populated Mekong Delta. With ARVN forces deployed elsewhere to counter the North Vietnamese offensive and unable to cope with the growing enemy threat in the Delta, the U.S. has apparently decided on a policy of massive and calculatedly destructive airpower as a substitute for manpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Dinh Tuong: Hell in a Small Place | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...northern part of the country, 20,000 South Vietnamese marines and airborne troops were continuing their cautious advance on North Vietnamese troops in Quang Tri province and its capital, the most important city to fall to the Communists since their offensive began last March. Meanwhile another 10,000 ARVN troops and rangers opened up a second drive along the central coast, where the North Vietnamese at one point had threatened to cut the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Slow Counterattack | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Despite heavy air support, after three weeks the South Vietnamese troops had still not dislodged some 500 or 600 Communists inside the thick-walled 19th century citadel in the center of Quang Tri city. On the coast, ARVN troops were equally cautious -with reason. Their first objective was Bong Son, capital of one of three districts in Binh Dinh province to fall to the Communists. ARVN'S slow pace has been frustrating to President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had wanted Quang Tri city retaken before the Paris talks resumed on July 13. It is no more certain that Thieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Slow Counterattack | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...morning we saw two dozen old men, women and children huddled in a house on the outskirts. Like many of the 10,000 refugees who passed through ARVN lines last week, they had come out of hiding in the city, where virtually all buildings have been destroyed, during the night. By day, when the hot, fierce, dry-season wind blows, about all that can be heard is the sound of rattling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Slow Counterattack | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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