Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Long Vinh. The peasants there are no more likely than the first group to cozy up to the Viet Cong, but they will be lucky if they escape with only a dose of indoctrination. While Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, a group of Viet Cong ambushed a truck convoy of civilians on a road 135 miles northeast of Saigon. Before they were through, they had killed nine people...
...thick jungle country 35 miles north of Saigon, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division ran into a hornets' nest last week. Assigned to secure Highway 16 for a supply convoy due to move through, elements of "the Big Red One" wandered unknowingly into a major Viet Cong troop concentration. It took the efforts of three full battalions to blast out the entrenched V.C., and much of the fighting was at close quarters-where accidents can happen...
...traffic has doubled over that during the same 1965 period, while delivery of Red supplies south of the 17th parallel has jumped 150% and of troops 120%, to an estimated 4,500 men a month. As evidence, McNamara displayed a recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo-trellised canopies rigged over some jungle roads to inhibit aerial observation...
Sudden Passivity. The red carpet soon ran out when the march switched off Highway 51 into the Delta, where Negroes often outnumber white residents. Governor Johnson lost some of his own cool and decided to withdraw more than half of the protecting state convoy. In Greenwood police at first refused to let the marchers pitch their tents on school property, arresting three, including S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael, when they tried. Most militant of all civil rights leaders, Carmichael, free on bond, shouted his anger: "We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down...
...crowd began arriving at 6 a.m., quickly grew to 125,000. At 8:52 a.m. the four condemned conspirators, wearing black hoods and blue shorts, arrived in a convoy of covered Jeeps...