Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost the war. Part of the difficulty of the Viet Nam war is that, though it may be a war neither side can win, it remains a conflict that each side is convinced it has not yet lost. Any settlement must reflect that lack of decision on the battlefield and translate it into a probably ambiguous peace...
Then the President gave Westy the second oak leaf cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal-awarded after the Tet offensive. Resor declared that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam is on the "threshold of complete success." In response, Westy said his forces had "denied to the enemy a battlefield victory" and "arrested the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia." Then he saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and Lady Bird asked everybody into the Blue Room for coffee and cookies...
...wounded Americans, the way station between the battlefield and home is one of the superbly staffed US military hospitals that are strategically placed throughout South Viet Nam. TIME Correspondent Don Sider injured by a mortar shell, spent several days recovering in one of the wards of the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku and filed this report...
...addition to Hanoi's obvious desire to stall for time in hopes of strengthening its position on the battlefield, there are other reasons for the glacial pace of the talks. One is that the North Vietnamese clear even the most minuscule matters with Hanoi. They even had to exchange twelve cables before they were permitted to move from their expensive digs at the Hotel Lutetia to a 20-room suburban villa once occupied by the late French Communist boss Maurice Thorez. Hanoi hesitated out of fear: What would the Chinese Communists think of North Viet Nam's delegates...
...Jima in 1945) for its gallantry in holding off the Communists at Khe Sanh. "It is still not clear that Hanoi is ready for an early or an honorable peace," said the President. But one thing, he added, should be unmistakably clear: "We shall not be defeated on the battlefield while the talks...