Word: beak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoofer and fellow forward Bobby "Beak" Allen matched each other like a pair of bookends all night as Hooft rippled the cords from 15 feet and then Allen popped from the same spot to get Harvard out of the starting blocks. Both finished with ten points...
...front last week, Vietnamese troops strengthened their hold over the Cambodian salient known, because of its shape, as the Parrot's Beak. Rolling across the border into the beak with captured American armor, artillery, air support*-and tactics-General Vo Nguyen Giap's 60,000-man force easily shattered Khmer Rouge defenders. Although Hanoi acknowledged that Cambodian forces had launched a broad counterattack into seven Vietnamese provinces, General Giap's forces were believed to be still in control of key border sectors and were securing their military victory through the formation of a provisional government composed...
Hanoi's two-handed diplomacy has already achieved one significant and rewarding result. Peking, which originally backed Cambodia while Moscow supported Viet Nam, last week showed a new evenhandedness by publishing the communiques and claims of both sides in the Parrot's Beak confrontation. Despite an assertion in Washington by presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski that the Viet Nam-Cambodia conflict was a "proxy war" between China and the Soviet Union, neither superpower had in fact taken a direct role in backing an ally and neither appeared eager...
...Parrot's Beak, Giap's troops were traveling in the area where American forces had invaded Cambodia to cut Viet Cong supply lines from the north. Route 1, the highway that Giap's soldiers used for their forays into Cambodia, was the same road along which Richard Nixon had sent U.S. troops in the eight-week U.S. invasion. It was also the route that the battle-tough North Vietnamese 9th Division, one of the units deployed last week, had traveled to enter Saigon...
...Khmer Rouge in the Beak, consisting of about 25,000 troops fighting in small groups, mounted occasional ambushes but were no match for the overpowering Vietnamese. Last week Giap's advance units, bypassing towns, finally halted near Neak Luong on the banks of the Mekong River. Though fighting continued sporadically, Hanoi offered to negotiate and restore diplomatic relations, which Phnom-Penh had broken off as the new year began. Refusing the offer, the Cambodians instead angrily accused Moscow of providing troop commanders and advisers for the Vietnamese invasion. At week's end Phnom-Penh admitted that the Vietnamese...