Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a recent tour of Viet Nam. "They don't have sky hooks and they can't exist on air. They've got to light somewhere, and the place to get them is in their nests." Last week Operation Cedar Falls continued to scythe through the enemy's longtime nests in the Iron Triangle 20 miles north of Saigon-razing villages and transplanting their civilian populations, bulldozing and burning away houses, fruit trees, rubber plantations, rice granaries and tropical thicket. In its largest operation of the war, employing...
Blocking Forces. Last week's drive, known as Operation Cedar Falls, was different. Before the main attack force of U.S. battalions made its sweep, the entire triangle was surrounded to cut off escape routes. Battalions of Vietnamese army regulars and U.S. troops were stationed along the perimeter to serve as blocking forces, and fleets of barges fitted out with "quad-fifties" (clusters of four .50-caliber machine guns) patrolled the rivers. But the object of the operation was not simply to trap Viet Cong, even though 286 were killed and 64 captured during the week. This time the Americans...
...questioning. Within three days, Ben Sue was deserted, its people and their possessions loaded aboard boats and shipped twelve miles downriver to a refugee camp until they can be permanently relocated. Shortly after they left, torches were put to their homes. After Operation Cedar Falls ends, it will be a long time before the Viet Cong, or anyone else, will be able to use the Iron Triangle again...
...Cincinnati's capable John Gilligan, narrowly beaten (margin: 7,832 votes out of 131,340) by Robert Taft Jr.. son of Mr. Republican. In Iowa, where five Democrats swept out veteran Republican Congressmen in 1964, the only survivor was Representative John Culver, who had a weak challenger in Cedar Rapids Mayor Robert Johnson...
...boycotts spread like butter on a sizzling griddle last week. Encouraged by reports that several shopping-cart blockades the week before had forced the great chains to lower some prices, housewives marched in more than 100 cities. Placard-waving pickets popped up in places as disparate as Pittsburgh and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Washington, B.C. and Lubbock, Texas. Esther Peterson, the former Utah schoolteacher who is the President's special assistant for consumer affairs, egged on a band of New York City demonstrators, urging them to "vote with the dollar...