Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heating up South Viet Nam's election fever may also have been one motive for heavy North Vietnamese attacks last week against ARVN forces guarding the Cambodian-South Viet Nam border. Despite daily raids by U.S. B-52 bombers against North Vietnamese positions in eastern Cambodia, the South Vietnamese reported heavy casualties. (At week's end, Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, heading a high-ranking delegation, flew into Hanoi in an effort by the Russians to reassure Hanoi of continued support, despite any detente between Washington and Peking...
...satisfied with Vietnamization to date and that ARVN has the ability to fight alone...
Last week, in a further Vietnamization of the war, the last of the bases that made up the McNamara line were turned over to the South Vietnamese army (ARVN). Six of the seven bases along the 40-mile stretch below the DMZ, from the South China Sea to the blue-tinged Annamite mountains of western Quang Tri province, are now manned by ARVN 1st Infantry troops and Marines. In a month or two, G.I.s will be pulled out of the seventh position, an outpost near the coast called Alpha 1, and the U.S. 5th Mechanized Division will leave its headquarters...
Alpha 4, the other base turned over to ARVN last week, is only three miles from the southern edge of the DMZ. Better known as Con Thien-the name that was still lettered on its tactical operations center when the 300-man G.I. garrison pulled out last week-it is a small triangle of dusty hillocks that long ago earned a pivotal niche in the history of the war. In 1967, the North Vietnamese put such relentless pressure on Con Thien and inflicted so many casualties that the American public's confidence in its government's management...
...because they feel spurned -and do not appear to be overly concerned about the consequences. While 21% of this group think the position of the North Vietnamese will be strengthened, 38% foresee only a short-term problem that the South Vietnamese can handle. A scant 15%, however, believe that ARVN is strong enough to maintain control without any hitches...