Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire day, a seemingly endless convoy of trucks poured into the town, carrying troops from the 21st Division, normally stationed deep in the Mekong Delta. Everyone seemed confident, except for the American helicopter crews waiting to carry some high-level U.S. military observers to the battlefront. "They'll never win this war as long as the Vietnamese let those guys fly choppers," said one Army captain, gesturing toward the dozing crew of a ramshackle Vietnamese Air Force "Huey." "These guys can't fight and won't fight. You'll never catch them in the air after...
...Highlands, known to the generals as Military Region II, North Vietnamese troops were maneuvering around Kontum, thought to be a prime Communist target. On the coast, sappers struck the big U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay, killing 3 Americans and wounding 15. Far to the south in the Mekong Delta (Military Region IV), there was a rash of shelling, and attacks hit airfields outside two provincial capitals. For the moment, however, the Communists had really opened only one new "front"; that was in Military Region III, the mid-country region that encompasses Saigon. That area was rapidly becoming the main...
...committed to the adventure in South Viet Nam. Some 35,000 North Vietnamese troops were present in the provinces south of the DMZ in Military Region I; there were perhaps 25,000 in the Central Highlands, 16,000 in the hard-pressed provinces around Saigon, 6,000 in the Delta. Counting Viet Cong soldiers, the total Communist troop strength in South Viet Nam is well over 100,000 men-the highest total since the months before the convulsive Tet 1968 attacks. Against them stand 492,000 South Vietnamese regulars and about 513,000 militia troops. The U.S. forces remaining...
...Huey Long. Though sometimes reduced to trading advertising space for food, Carter managed to survive Long's attempt to legislate the paper out of business. A year after Long's assassination, Carter started a new paper in Greenville, then bought out his only rival to form the Delta Democrat-Times. Carter's editorial attacks on racial injustice earned him many admirers around the nation and many foes closer to home. In 1946 he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing...
...tenant farmer who can show that he is tilling a piece of land is entitled to take free possession of it, up to certain limits (7.5 acres in the vast Delta, 2½ acres in land-poor central South Viet Nam). Landlords are allowed to retain a maximum of 30 acres provided they work the land themselves or hire wage laborers...