Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then to go aggressively hunting and killing the enemy on their own from the Mekong Delta to the Viet Cong's highland sanctuaries. Phase 3 died aborning, because wherever two or three V.C. companies tried to gather, Allied planes were soon on the scene-and often enough with helilifted Allied troops not far behind...
...bullets that flew through the paneless windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
Others felt the same disappointment. Civil-rights workers in Greenville, who swam in the lake, drank Dr. Pepper from the bottle and wore dungarees--they too had heard about Carter and had read the Delta Democrat-Times; then they came to town and saw the big house. "Fat cat," they chanted...
...Star) went back to Kansas City to pay tribute to their alma mater and its longtime editor, Roy A. Roberts, 77, who retired last January. The occasion was the 85th anniversary of the Star, but the star attraction was Roberts. Amid steaks, Bloody Marys, speeches, reminiscences and a Sigma Delta Chi award to the Star, guests could hardly decide whether they were more surprised that their crusty old editor had slimmed from 300 Ibs. to 185 or that he had finally given up control of the Star. But on one thing they all agreed: the paper will never be quite...
...planting the First Team in isolated An Khe, the U.S. has significantly expanded its tactical role in the war Until now, the U.S. has had its hands full simply helping protect the coastal areas and the Mekong Delta where most of the people of South Viet Nam live. Not for nothing is the only adornment on the otherwise bare walls of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's office a population map. It shows plainly that the usual Viet Nam maps showing the areas of Viet Cong control are misleading, for their hegemony is in the least populated part...