Word: bu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BU didn't exactly blow Harvard off the ice in the first period, but the Crimson's disorganized defense, erratic passing, and maladjusted coordination between defense and forwards produced the same result...
...Crimson, meanwhile, was doing very little right. At the 14-minute mark. Durne barely stuffed a BU breakaway, and at 16:05 Terrier captain Larry Davenport, hassled by Harvard's Skip Freeman, shored a centering pass into the Crimson net from point-blank range to make the game...
Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...
...late October, when the Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under personal pressure from President Nguyen Van Thieu to seize the initiative, Canh ordered the 23rd to ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from...