Word: beak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fighting raged once again in Indochina last week, and troops surged into Cambodia's Parrot's Beak region, where American forces in 1970 had made their highly controversial incursion. This time, however, the foes were two Communist nations that had survived and triumphed over U.S. might. Viet Nam and Cambodia (which now calls itself Democratic Kampuchea) challenged each other not only with deadly gunfire but with blasts of bitter propaganda, while their sponsoring powers, the Soviet Union and China, watched uneasily from the sidelines...
...never ceased. Common cause against the South Viet Nam regime and the U.S. merely dampened mutual hatreds; even in the midst of war, there were incidents between them. In 1973 the Khmer Rouge attacked North Vietnamese who were maintaining a wartime supply line through the Parrot's Beak, where Cambodian territory protrudes into Viet Nam. The Cambodians suspected-justifiably, as it turned out-that the Vietnamese were holding Chinese arms meant for Khmer Rouge fighters...
...terror at home and abroad. Cambodians were driven from Phnom-Penh to the countryside; thousands, including Communists, were purged and killed, and thousands more fled the country. Obsessed with their long hatred of a powerful neighbor, the Cambodians forced Viet Nam to withdraw from the Parrot's Beak. The Khmer Rouge, meanwhile, also occupied several disputed islands in the Gulf of Siam, forcing Vietnamese to leave. After that, relations between the two neighbors disintegrated into a series of border raids punctuated by ineffectual attempts to negotiate their differences...
Last month he called on his soldiers to "firmly defend our independence, sovereignty and territory, including our frontiers, offshore islands, waters, continental shelf and air space"-and sent 60,000 troops into the Parrot's Beak. This was the largest force that Viet Nam had put into the field since the two-week battle for Xuan Loc in April 1975, which sealed the doom of Saigon...
...ring immediately if anyone else got in. "Those guys'll hit anything moving," the author was warned, "the timekeeper, if he got in there; a handyman sent in to check the ring posts; anybody. And as for a writer, those guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated 1807. In time. Brown took loudly to calling Plimpton a "tiger," an example of untruth in advertising...