Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk of a bombing pause, there were a few seemingly stout reeds. The obvious Russian interest alone was rea son for optimism. So, on the other side, was the U.S. gesture of returning 14 captured North Vietnamese sailors, followed by an unusual South Vietnamese pledge to free 140 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese prisoners in time for National...
LONDON, Oct. 27-A sea of yelling demonstrators surged through downtown London with Vict Cong flags Sunday in a massive anti-American demonstration that broke up in violent scenes around the U.S. Embassy...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu, of Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"). The leader of the 1963 coup that deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, he had spent nearly four years in exile. Hanoi, which apparently sees Big Minh as a possible bridge between the present Saigon regime and the Viet Cong guerrillas, has accordingly taken pains to treat him gently. A sharp reduction in fighting in the South also took place. U.S. battle deaths have been declining steadily since the end of August, dipped to 177 during the week ending Oct. 12. During the first three days of last week...
...dirty job. It flows through the nauseous swamp called the Rung Sat (Killer Jungle), now more than 50% devastated by defoliating agents, but still dense enough to serve as a haven for an estimated 800 V.C. troops. Because the narrow Long Tau could easily be blocked, the Viet Cong have been trying hard since the beginning of the American buildup in 1965 to do precisely that. "If a ship the size of the Kalydon could be sunk in the middle of the river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer...
...their attacks from six in 1967 to 37 so far this year. Recently the enemy launched a so-called from a "Flying Trashcan" missile, adapted from a Soviet 122-mm. rocket, at the freighter Transglobe. The first Trashcan missed, but its appearance was ominous confirmation of the Viet Cong's continuing determination to block the Long...