Word: delta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam's crack "Red Lightning" division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village of Loc Ninh, deep in the Mekong Delta. Slogging through flooded paddyfields and reed swamps, rifles held high, the government soldiers advanced toward the tree line that marked the Viet Cong position. A pasting by napalm, rockets, bombs and machine-gun fire from T-28 fighter-bombers had failed to budge the guerrillas from their camouflaged foxholes. Guns cocked, the ragged Communists calmly held...
...Patterson, whose association with the line, says one United official, "will end on the day he is buried." Keck is a golfer and a devoted gardener who also delights in socializing with his family. One of his two daughters, Leslie, 23, is a stewardess for, of all things, competing Delta Air Lines...
...happened, Sheriff Ford, who is head of the Oxford, Miss., White Citizens Council, had already been tipped off about McDowell's pistol. Boasted he: "Thirty minutes after he bought that little nigger pistol over in the Delta, the Citizens Council headquarters in Jackson knew about it." Ford merely waited for the right moment...
...last time U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara visited South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong Communists posted a crude wooden sign in the Mekong Delta: "That Man McNamara Stay Out of Viet Nam." Last week, as McNamara headed back to Viet...
...goats, pigs, chickens and barebreasted women, the Defense Secretary observed the villagers voting in the national election being held that day, which was carefully arranged to sweep back into office a new Diem-ruled National Assembly. Then the Secretary, Taylor and Ambassador Lodge headed south into the Communistinfested Mekong Delta, where the war has always been an uphill struggle, and where the Reds have recently increased activity. As they were being briefed at Camau, gunfire was audible on the village outskirts-normal "background music" in the area, they were told...