Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
...ARVN has tended to be defensive-minded, interested only in setting up a perimeter and then sitting back inside it and waiting. ARVN soldiers did little night patrolling, fought the war on a five-day week, with officers whipping off to Saigon for the weekend. In the populous Mekong Delta, local ARVN commanders were suspected of occasional "accommodations" with their Viet Cong counterparts, aimed at preserving the status quo and holding the fighting to a minimum. In this area Abrams sees notable improvement. Of ARVN's 149 maneuver battalions, he regards only nine as really unsatisfactory any longer...
Early yesterday morning, in response to the students' demands, the Trustees agreed to revoke the charter of Phi Delta Theta for "blackballing" a student because he was Jewish. But the Trustees have not yet complied with the protestors' second demand that the fraternity be disbanded as a residential unit...
...fraternities, several faculty members, and several dorms have offered space to members of Phi Delta Theta who wish to resign from the fraternity...
National and Braniff Airlines will change to the same two-thirds assured space plan at the time that Eastern does. Delta and Allegheny have offered this as their sole youth fare program for several years. Northeast has used the plan on its Boston-Philadelphia route since February 25 as a test of youth response to a possible total change in its youth fare program...