Word: cu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second Try. At week's end the Viet Cong decided to try again. This time they kidnaped 108 residents of Dinh Cu hamlet, just a mile or two 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...
...brown desert boots for a two-day whirl through American units stationed all over the country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck of the carrier Oriskany, paid brief visits to Danang, Cu Chi and the rapidly building military port of Cam Ranh Bay. But the highlight of his trip was the 3rd Marine Division's forward command post at Dong Ha, where he got an on-the-spot briefing of the northern battle lines. Included in the briefing: a helicopter flight...
...Rear. Operation Kahuku, which cleared Cu Chi, was but one of some 60 major Allied search-and-destroy missions in the last 100 days. While the headlines were filled with South Viet Nam's Buddhist-fueled political crisis, the Allies, running an average of 15 battalion-size-or-larger operations each week, have been methodically hunting down the enemy. From north of Hue to south of Saigon, from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands to Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, spearheaded by the armor and artillery and airpower of the U.S., the Allies have been hitting...
...richest (after the U.S.'s), and in Britain, there have been five major strikes in the North Sea and Yorkshire since last fall. A consortium of the British government's Gas Council and three U.S.owned companies reported last week that a newly found well yields 25 million cu. ft. of gas daily, double the group's earlier claims...
...recent finds have a potential of yielding up to 2 billion cu. ft. daily, double present consumption. Ultimately, the gas finds will cut Britain's energy costs, strengthen its foreign-exchange reserves by reducing fuel imports...