Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard fare in fascinating musical and historical perspective. Early risers attended taped Italian radio performances of such out-of-the-way operas from Verdi's journeyman days as Attila, The Corsair and Joan of Arc, in which the Maid dies not at the stake but on the battlefield. Later in the day, in one or another of the marble-and-crystal salons in Newport's stately mansions, the offerings included chamber and vocal music by operatic composers, excerpts from other unfamiliar 19th century operas (including the "other" La Boheme, composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo only months after Puccini...
...regulars and secure the countryside as well. "If the enemy tries to oppress the People's Movement in South Viet Nam," said General Vinh, "he will not be able to stop our reinforcements from North Viet Nam. If he concentrates all his forces to defeat us on the battlefield, he cannot protect his rear areas. To fight and secure his rear areas at the same time, he must have 1,000,000 troops...
Convinced that the U.S. is hardly likely to commit so many men to the defense of South Viet Nam, Hanoi is determined to keep the U.S. forces that are there as busy as possible on the battlefield so that they cannot harass the Viet Cong operating in the countryside. North Viet Nam's recent aggressiveness along the DMZ, for example, is viewed by U.S. intelligence sources as an attempt to tie down large U.S. Marine forces in static defense, in order to relieve pressure on the local Viet Cong in populous contested areas where the Marines' pacification efforts have been...
...writes that coming to the conference table does not mean leaving the battlefield. The struggle goes...
Three weeks ago, near Dak To in the Central Highlands of South Viet Nam, North Vietnamese troops over ran American positions, inflicting heavy casualties on the outnumbered, ambushed G.I.s. Then the North Vietnamese systematically slaughtered the Americans who lay wounded on the battlefield. It was only the latest in the continuing series of atrocities that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have made a deliberate and calculat ed part of their war tactics. With a chilling combination of care and coldbloodedness, they have assassinated pacification leaders, killed U.S. AID workers, decapitated village chiefs, abducted whole hamlets, and murdered prisoners...