Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth American also gained his freedom last week in Viet Nam. He owed no thanks for it to the Viet Cong, though it must have been a relief for them to have him go. Major James N. Rowe, a 1960 West Point graduate, was captured in the delta in October 1963 while serving as a Special Forces first lieutenant advising South Vietnamese forces. Last week the crew of an American helicopter operating over a clearing near Ca Mau city spotted a bearded figure clad in black pajamas and waving a mosquito net. It was Rowe. He had escaped from...
Point of Honor. A native of the Mississippi Delta, King left school after the ninth grade to work as a farm laborer. He learned to play the guitar from an uncle who was a Baptist minister, sang in gospel groups, performed for coins on the street corners of dusty Southern towns. In 1948, he moved to Memphis and started out as a disk jockey and singer, billing himself as the "Beale St. Blues Boy." That was soon shortened to Blues Boy, finally to B. B. (his real first name is Riley...
Frog-marched from a Mosque. The current, renewed trouble broke out at Mansoura, a delta provincial capital 75 miles northeast of Cairo, over a decree is sued by the new Education Minister, ex-Professor Murad. Its effect would be to force marginal students to repeat their grade and expel third-year students who fail twice. Probably egged on by the violent Moslem Brotherhood, some 5,000 Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries...
Quiet in the Delta. The level of fighting, to be sure, did not nearly approach the intensity of battle that had prevailed earlier in the year. Whatever tacit understanding to lower the level of violence that had been reached be tween the U.S. and the North Vietnamese seemed to be working, at least in part. Nonetheless, almost 500 Americans and more than 450 South Vietnamese have died in action since Nov. 1. The weekly average of 144 U.S. battle deaths since then is admittedly considerably lower than the average of 293 for the year prior to the halt...
...Corps, is quiet. Communist forces have either gone into hiding, drifted further south or slipped across the Cambodian and Laotian borders. Except for a massive, six-battalion attempt by the South Vietnamese last week in Chau Doc province to take a vital Viet Cong stronghold, the fertile and populous Delta area of IV Corps is equally calm...