Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack comes, the South can count on numerical superiority on the ground. Its tough, well-trained 625,000-man regular army would face only 470,000 Northern soldiers. Moreover, many of the South's officers gained valuable battlefield experience in South Viet Nam. In the air, however, the North enjoys a 3-to-1 advantage in planes. The South must therefore rely on U.S. fighter-bombers based at two airfields in South Korea and on the carriers of the Seventh Fleet...
...various degrees of American involvement in Viet Nam, President Ford last week declared with utter finality that for the U.S., the war was over. A massive Communist force, which had closed in on Saigon from all sides with staggering speed, lay waiting after abruptly halting its advance. Unmistakably, the battlefield lull meant that Saigon had one last chance to avoid total military defeat. It could form a new "peace government" that would be acceptable to the Communists; that government would then arrange what would amount to a negotiated surrender to the Communists. No specific terms were spelled out, but Hanoi...
...supplied bomb, the Defense Department acknowledged--an "asphyxiation bomb." Officially called canister bomb, the units, or CBUs, and originally intended as a device for exploding mines in front of advancing troops, these bombs absorbed all the oxygen within a 200-yard radius. At Xuan Loc, last week's main battlefield, hundreds of PRG soldiers were said to have died of suffocation...
Shades of Red. Ten days after its capture, Danang appeared to be returning to normalcy. Stores were open and cinemas were operating, featuring such Hanoi potboilers as The Revered Flag and Battlefield in Quang Due. North and South Vietnamese currencies were both in circulation, but the black-market value of Hanoi's dong increased daily against Saigon's piaster. Looters sold rice from government storehouses and motorbikes and boats left behind by those who had fled. Such enterprise stopped abruptly when Communist soldiers shot ten looters and led others away with hands bound...
...vein of self-contempt-sometimes but not always playful-runs throughout the book. Clark speaks of "the evasions and half-truths" encouraged by the lecture form. Reviewing his decision to become a museum director, he concludes: "I took the wrong turning." The London art world he compares to "a battlefield at nightfall," and seems to despise himself for surviving it: "I learnt adaptability and what is known in boxing as footwork...