Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Safeway and Giant Food, as well as promises of 850 loaves of bread a day from the baking industry and 1,500 half-pints of milk from local dairies. Discouraged by the turmoil, an abnormal cold snap and a driving rain that turned much of the camp site into a bog, more than 50 of the initial 500 settlers asked to be sent back South...
...next on the target list is the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands, where the Communists nearly cut Viet Nam in half just before the U.S. buildup in 1965. Within a month, the U.S. also expects another division-size thrust across the Demilitarized Zone, aimed at the Camp Carroll artillery base and perhaps sliding off toward Khe Sanh again. The allies anticipate more trouble for the Marine base at Danang, and within three months perhaps even another attempt on Saigon...
...Communist buildup in the Highlands is already under way, seeping out from Laos toward the string of allied fire bases and such Special Forces camps as Dak To, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place last fall. Moving in bad weather, North Vietnamese are filtering along the mountain ridges and positioning themselves close to Route 14, along which most of the 250,000 people in the Highlands live. Their aim is to capture Kontum and hold it for at least a while, thus scoring a propaganda victory; but they cannot begin to do that until they...
...instead of reinforcing Kham Due, the U.S. decided to evacuate the camp. There were tactical reasons for the evacuation as well: the mountainous, triple-canopied terrain around Kham Due favored the enemy, and only limited ground reinforcements were available. With the Communists bunched around the camp, the U.S. also hoped to use its airpower to maximum effectiveness -and it did, killing hundreds of the Communists and setting off dozens of secondary explosions. Nonetheless, the evacuation turned out to be a harrowing operation. Two C-130s, a Skyraider fighter-bomber and five helicopters were gunned down by the North Vietnamese, including...
...already. A series of recent head-on clashes with the Kremlin has so fractured relations that Rumania is no longer welcome at high-level Communist conferences. The open display of support from De Gaulle was thus a welcome boost to Ceauşescu, whose position in the Soviet-dominated camp is becoming increasingly isolated. While De Gaulle seeks to broaden his contacts in Eastern Europe, Ceauşescu hopes for more tangible economic and political results from the visit, such as greater access to Western technology and the promise of closer ties with the West...