Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing concern that the 5,000 Marines at the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh can be overrun by the North Vietnamese infantry divisions that are inexorably tightening the circle around them. Warned Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell: "I am afraid this position may be difficult to defend. I hope we will be able to reinforce our troops there sufficiently." Even South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu is said by associates to believe that the Americans should evacuate Khe Sanh rather than risk a defeat that could curdle U.S. opinion about...
...father taught me how to use my hands to defend myself," he said yesterday. His father, John Weeks, was once a professional boxer...
...Fifth Column. The Communists' successful application of widespread pressure has forced a painful sequence of choices and consequences on the allies. Required to use all their armies to defend the cities and the line along the DMZ, allied commanders no longer have enough manpower to move out in pursuit of Communist battalions. They are thus unable to hit at their besiegers, or even put out sufficient reconnaissance patrols to determine the size and deployment of the Communist armies arrayed around them. Nor can the U.S. and the South Vietnamese be sure how many enemy forces, the remnants...
Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
...25th Infantrymen killed 128 Communists in a firefight, and less than a mile from the Chinese quarter of Cholon, ARVN Rangers killed 48 Viet Cong. Tan Son Nhut airport remained a major target for shelling, and there was fear that General William Westmoreland may not have sufficient troops to defend his own MACV headquarters there against a concerted enemy thrust. Aside from their military aims, the Communists may also be attempting to cut off Saigon and strangle it economically...