Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before they fled under a hail of Marine mortar and small-arms fire within minutes after they had come, the raiders destroyed one Delta Dagger jet and two four-engine C-130 Hercules transports and damaged two Delta Daggers and one Hercules. Estimated total cost: $5,000,000. The Viet Cong left behind them trails of blood indicating that several had been wounded. One was captured, turned out to be a North Vietnamese soldier named Do Xuan Hien, 29, who under questioning said that he had infiltrated into South Viet Nam three months ago with his entire battalion...
...Mekong Delta 35 miles south of Saigon, South Vietnamese troops overran the Communist-held village of Tan Hiep, surprised and killed seven Viet Cong provincial officials in the midst of a meeting; the dead included the Reds' Dinh Tuong province chief and the political commissar of the Viet Cong's 261st Battalion. Later in the same operation, air-supported South Vietnamese soldiers killed an estimated 255 Viet Cong, whose unit had been spotted along a canal...
...Viet Cong. Outside the capital, the Communists concentrate on cutting supply lines. The railroad to Hue, South Viet Nam's ancient Buddhist center far to the north, has not been used for a year. Route 4, over which most of the rich harvest of the Mekong Delta moves to Saigon, is mined with jolting frequency. The road from mountainous Dalat-source of the capital's vegetables and fruit-can be traversed only by army truck convoys. On back-country roads last week, the Viet Cong coolly halted traffic, confiscated bikes, cars and motor scooters even from those...
Class Struggle? "These professionals do not want change through reform," says Hodding Carter's Delta Democrat-Times. "They want revolutionary change of a kind which goes far beyond the question of an equal chance for all men." Middle-class Negroes, many of them veteran members of the N.A.A.C.P., charge that the ministry and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), are conspiring to oust them from leadership of the civil rights movement...
...Vital First Step." Delta Ministry officials argue that no reconciliation is possible until the Negroes have the means to take charge of their own destiny. "We are not a conduit between the Negro and the white communities," says Rev. Arthur C. Thomas, director of the ministry. "We are trying to enable the two groups to come together with dignity and respect for one another. What's needed now is the vital first step-building up the Negro community so that the two can come together in this manner...