Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise that "R" is hard to find; he is said to travel constantly between COSVN's different units by motor bike. Two weeks ago, U.S. troops came close to capturing an important element of the headquarters. Acting on a tip, two infantry battalions raced to a bunker complex near Mimot, only to find the place all but deserted. One wounded Communist who had been left behind told about the staff's "getting on their bi cycles and Hondas and riding off" the day before. Left behind were five mimeograph machines, six typewriters and two rubber stamps...
...Monday, Nixon had Kissinger round up "unvarnished recommendations" from several sources, including U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton Abrams in Saigon. He took the suggestions back to the White House and read past midnight. Next morning, he summoned Rogers, Kissinger and Laird to give them the news: not only would U.S. advisers accompany ARVN troops into Cambodia, but the American-led Fishhook attack would be staged a day later as a second and even more unexpected jolt to the Communists. The orders were quickly passed to a delighted South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. As Nixon retired...
...field office from which Hanoi runs its political and military operations in the southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker to concrete bunker, hidden under the thick jungle canopy. The "floating crap game," as COSVN is known in Saigon, is often widely dispersed. As they searched for it, the troops found elaborate underground bunkers almost everywhere they turned: plucking a pineapple from the ground at an innocent-looking farm...
...largest enemy drive in the past eight months but, according to U.S. officers, it came as no surprise: recent intelligence pinpointed the onslaught almost to the minute. The most ferocious attack was against an artillery base near the Cambodian border, where a direct hit on an ammunition storage bunker killed more than 20 Americans-the highest single loss since May 1968. After a brief pause, the Communists at week's end renewed their attacks, mainly along the Demilitarized Zone and the Cambodian border. An eight-hour battle near Con Thien represented the heaviest fighting along the DMZ in nearly...
...Cowin, Navy's big gun last year, has graduated, as has John Bunker, who won the only match for the Middies in last spring's loss. So coach Bobby Bayliss has been forced to install a sophomore, Gordon Perry, at the number one position, and although he has four veterans at his disposal, is uncertain both where to play them on the ladder and whether the ranking will make much difference today anyway...