Word: cong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next year led a battalion to victory in the battle of Ap Gu, one of the major engagements in the biggest American offensive of the time. It was a classic Viet Nam operation; Haig's troops were helicoptered into an area thought to be infested with Viet Cong guerrillas, drew an enemy attack and held their ground in bloody hand-to-hand fighting, while Haig called in heavy artillery and air strikes...
...left, and only 35 or 50 in their zoos. I just hope they don't turn this beautiful thing between me and dingaling into something cheap. While we're at it, if there's a kid, I hope they don't call it Bing-Bing, Cong-Cong or any of those ca-ca double expressions. Why, just once, can't there be a panda named Archie or Bert? Got to go. We're pulling into Washington and a mob of Panda watchers are ready to pump me full of vitamins...
...stop there. The 20,000 troops of the South African Defense Force (SADF) vastly outnumber the 8,000-odd SWAPO guerrillas. The SWAPO forces, armed with Soviet-made rifles and light artillery, are no match for the mechanized, often airborne South African troops. And, like the Cambodia-based Viet Cong a decade ago, SWAPO conducts its raids from sanctuaries-this time in neighboring Angola...
...booby-trapping their patches, and not just to keep out the police. The pot farmers must also fight off poachers, many of them local teenagers. Fields have been found equipped with electrical alarm systems, guard dogs, shotgun traps and even punji sticks, the sharpened stakes used by the Viet Cong to pierce the feet of patrolling American and South Vietnamese soldiers. Mendocino County, located north of San Francisco, has had several assaults, shootings and even one killing related to pot thefts. Warns Sonoma County District Attorney Gene Tunney, son of the late heavyweight boxing champion: "If you go walking...
...years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because the boy represented the enemy...