Word: cuing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elbow Room. The U.S. unit that found the going toughest was the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage...
...Refugees. While the 2nd was digging out a home at Cu Chi, the U.S. Marines were abandoning An Lao Valley, the object of Operation Double Eagle, which began three weeks ago as part of a massive allied offensive in Binh Dinh province. The marines accounted for 312 enemy dead, but Double Eagle got its claws into little really organized opposition. Unfortunately, the enemy will likely soon slip back into fertile An Lao: Saigon does not have enough South Vietnamese troops to follow the marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers...
...businessmen smilingly signed agreements last week that will guarantee them industrial raw materials for years to come. To the Russians, the Japanese pledged $200 million in pipe and liquefication equipment with which to develop the Okha natural-gas fields of Soviet-held Sakhalin island: in return, 7,000,000 cu. ft. per year of Sakhalin gas will be shipped to Japan. In Sumatra, Japanese oilmen promised to invest $15 million to carry on offshore oilfield drilling; Indonesia will keep 39% of the oil produced, and the Japanese will get the rest. And the Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. paid...
...fighter strip at Phan Rang, a floating dock that will double the capacity of the Qui Nhon harbor, a communications facility and a 60-bed hospital for the 1st Air Cavalry at An Khe, a 250,000-sq.-yd. ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling 362,762 tons of fill, pouring 1,394 cu. yds. of concrete, finishing 504 lin. ft. of runway, erecting...
...towed from South Carolina, arrived Oct. 30, and was in use 45 days later. To anchor it, caissons were sunk 138 ft. into the bay's sandy bottom; an 850-ft.-long causeway from shore to pier was fashioned out of 27,500 cu. yds. of rock that had to be blasted out of a nearby hill. "It was the most spectacular and important project we've had to date," said Colonel Hart. It also was one of the most urgently needed: before the new pier was put in use, as many as 47 ships choked...