Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to a trickle, and will soon halt altogether. Rice exports, which account for more than half, are likely to drop by nearly 60%. Still, Cambodia's most immediate needs are military. So far help has come almost entirely from the South Vietnamese. More than 25,000 ARVN regulars remained in Cambodia after the U.S. departure, conducting massive sweeps north, northwest and northeast of Phnom-Penh in the hope of driving Communist forces farther away from the capital. To help overcome Cambodia's lack of disciplined fighters, Saigon last week announced that over the next three months...
...anti-Communist regime of Premier Lon Nol announced that it had invited Thailand to send several thousand troops to help defend it against attack from the increasingly wide-ranging Communist troops. South Viet Nam, besides moving ARVN regulars into Cambodia to clean out the sanctuaries, has ordered all available troops from its own Khmer minority to take up the defense of their ancestral home, and about 2,000 are in Cambodia...
...Communists struck an even more serious blow at an isolated ARVN artillery base named Tun Tavern, on a mountain ridge 21 miles south of the demilitarized zone. North Vietnamese regulars, who apparently entered through Laos, overran the outpost, killing 50 and wounding 119. The South Vietnamese, with the help of U.S. advisers, recaptured the base, but the attack underscored the blunt admission of a U.S. officer: "I Corps and II Corps are our problem areas now." In I Corps, the number of small-unit contacts in recent weeks has averaged more than the total in all the other military regions...
...many areas, however, ARVN's progress is still disappointing, and not even the intense euphoria of the Cambodian excursion can overcome low pay, corruption and lackluster leadership. True, U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird began hinting last week that "the success of Vietnamization" could permit a speedup in U.S. withdrawal plans; instead of pulling out 150,000 troops by next spring, as President Nixon announced in April, the U.S. might bring home as many as 195,000. But the fact is that Vietnamization is six months behind in some respects. A high-command reorganization that was supposed to root...
This guy is crazy," says an American who has known Lieut. General Do Cao Tri for several years. "Even when he wasn't a general he always got right into the fight." In ARVN's bad old days, his combativeness made him an exception. Now that the army is beginning to shape up, he is a symbol of its feisty new spirit. As commander of ARVN's Operation Total Victory, which has involved some of the deepest South Vietnamese air and armor thrusts into the Parrot's Beak and beyond, Tri has waded farther than ever...