Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet ministers makes little difference to most Vietnamese, but the southerners in the regime resent the powers and patronage that the northerners enjoy. The feud came to a head in the Health Ministry, where Deputy Minister Nguyen Tan Loc, a native of the south's Mekong River Delta, decided to right the balance...
...really rocking the Delta From coast to coast...
...latter, commanders in the field insist that at least 750,000 men will be required to permit the allies to seal off the South's sievelike borders and to send perhaps two divisions into the Mekong Delta, the southernmost section of the country. "Something has got to be done in the delta or you aren't going to win this war," said a high-ranking U.S. officer in Saigon. "Half the people in the country live there. We've got to control the delta, but we haven't got the men to send in there...
...Prairie's nine weeks of hillto-hill combat, the Allies had poured 1,000,000 artillery shells and 2,200 air strikes into the fray, killing 992 Red infantrymen. South of Danang the Marines were searching out Viet Cong in Operation Macon, and in the rice-rich Delta, two search-and-destroy missions -Sioux City and Sunset Beach-were aimed at denying the enemy his breadbasket. South of Tuy Hoa on the coast, the 101st Airborne's Operation Seward has robbed enemy granaries of 2,500 tons of rice-enough to feed 32,500 men for a year...
...least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length of a present-day 707, it will carry up to 350 passengers, shoot them as swiftly as an arrow from continent to continent. The bigger plane also means more fuel capacity and greater range. The delta wing sweeps back 30° for a 186-m.p.h. takeoff, folds to 42° for subsonic flight, and comes within kissing distance of the fuselage at a projectile-like 72° angle for supersonic flight. The front of the plane also hinges: the Boeing SST drops its nose for better visibility...