Word: delta
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...presence in Indochina. A romantic and a perfectionist, he retired from the army in 1963 after a dispute with senior U.S. officials over American policy in South Viet Nam. After returning two years later as a civilian adviser, he conducted the notably successful pacification program in the Mekong Delta with his usual impatience and abrasiveness. Thirteen months ago he became the senior American adviser in the Central Highlands. By the time he died last week in a helicopter crash, while flying by night from his headquarters at Pleiku to the embattled city of Kontum, he had spent nearly...
...help retake An Loc, the Saigon government has stripped the Mekong Delta of two-thirds of its ARVN defenders. As a result, there has been a sharp surge of small-scale fighting in the Delta, a region that the U.S. military once boasted had been virtually pacified; no fewer than 300 government outposts have been destroyed there since the offensive began. President Thieu is said to believe that if the Communists could overwhelm 50% of the Delta, as well as maintain their hold on ground they have gained elsewhere, they just might be willing to settle for President Nixon...
...Nixon got the South Vietnamese President to agree to resign in advance of any internationally supervised election. Apart from that, Thieu might be forced to resign in humiliation if the former imperial capital of Hué were to fall or if the NVA were to sweep through the Mekong Delta...
...Viet Nam, as a plans officer for the riverine force in the Delta, that his attitude began to change. "It was not a matter of seeing a massacre or anything like that," he explains...
...order personally that it be held "at all costs." "I'm very confident," he added. Mustered for the defense of Hué were South Viet Nam's best units. They included the 1st Division, a marine division and infantry units hastily brought up from the Mekong Delta and nearby Quang Ngai province. Thieu's biggest asset may be his new commander in the north, Lieut. General Ngo Quang Truong. Truong is regarded by Americans as ARVN's most effective field commander, and his first action was decisive enough. To stop the hemorrhage of ARVN troops through...