Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mood. Humphrey's rivals sought to capitalize on that weakness in a bruising struggle over the Viet Nam plank in the party platform. McCarthy's supporters were in a feisty, uncompromising mood. They demanded a clause calling for an immediate bombing halt and inclusion of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front in a coali tion government even before elections were held. The Administration sought a more vaguely worded plank. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it, while testifying before the Platform Committee in Washington, the party should describe the overall U.S. objective as "an early...
...second Communist drive pressed on Tay Ninh from the North. A Viet Cong battalion tried to storm the 25th Division's fire base "Buell." The U.S. ar tillerymen depressed their 105-mm. and 155-mm. tubes, firing pointblank "beehive" rounds of metal slivers that turned back the assault. In only one sector of the town were the Communists tem porarily successful, as they infiltrated almost two battalions into the southern fringes of Tay Ninh. In the ensuing battle, the allies were sorely tempted to use heavy weapons on dug-in Communist forces. Bomb-laden jets actually circled over...
...first heavy fighting erupted along the Cambodian border to the west of Saigon, where the equivalent of a Viet Cong division moved on the provincial capital of Tay Ninh. Hints of a major buildup there had been drifting in for about a month. Confirmation came when a South Vietnamese armor specialist showed up at a Chieu Hoi center for defectors. He reported that the Communists had tried to recruit him to drive one of the armored personnel carriers that they expected to capture in an attack on the town...
...five signs up as a scout for the U.S. Marines' Operation Kit Carson or joins an armed propaganda team, touring the countryside as living proof of the benefits of the Open Arms program. For an elite few, there are government jobs. Two former lieutenant colonels in the Viet Cong, Le Xuan Chuyen and Huynh Cu, are sub-Cabinet officials in the Ministry of Open Arms...
Quality Compensation. The number of defectors is down sharply this year: only 7,500 have come over, compared with 20,000 for the same period in 1967. One reason is the Communist promise that the war would be over by August of 1968, with Hanoi and the Viet Cong victorious-a promise that the Communist Tet offensive bolstered for a time in the Red ranks, keeping waverers in line. But lately the rate of defections has begun to rise noticeably toward 1967 levels, indicating that that promise may be wearing a bit thin...