Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first, his duties in Paris have included propagandizing Europeans, dissident Americans and South Vietnamese residing in France. His latest coup was to trot out a herd of Southern students to march in last week's May Day parade under a Viet Cong flag...
Salute to the Tube. To learn how to avoid Viet Cong booby traps and needle-pointed poisoned bamboo punji stakes, infantrymen will be shown eight hours of video tapes on Viet Nam. In a lesson on military courtesv, recruits watch a televised salute and then salute the screen while they are checked by their own sergeant. Altogether, the Army has assembled more than 2,000 TV tapes on such wide-ranging subjects as how to bandage wounds, drive correctly and repair radios. Unlike old training films, which cost three times the $500 budgeted to crank out a minute of televised...
Whatever may happen in Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong shelled Saigon and a dozen other cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles...
...night of Feb. 26, selected local workers showed up at a "political meeting" at the invitation of the Viet Cong. Their bodies turned up in a grave near a school at Duong Xuan...
...South Vietnamese government absolutely refuses to countenance is a coalition with the Communists. Truong Dinh Dzu, the presidential runner-up in last year's elections, was arrested last week for openly advocating coalition. Nonetheless, many members of the government have long maintained covert contacts with the Viet Cong and its political arm, the National Liberation Front, which is directed by Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who runs the front from a jungle redoubt. In many cases, the contacts are the residue of common cause in arms against the French more than a decade ago, or the result...