Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Differing Versions. According to Cairo, Israeli pilots flying U.S.-built Phantom jets bombed a schoolhouse near the Nile Delta, killing 30 pupils ranging in age from six to twelve years. Israel admitted the bombings, but the two sides differed greatly in their accounts of what had happened. The Egyptians escorted foreign newsmen to a hospital to view the dead, as well as 31 wounded children. But they declined to let the reporters see the school, insisting that the road leading to it was impassable. Cairo reported that the two-year-old school, situated in a region known as Bahr...
...revolutionism is so artfully told that it escapes being a cliche. It rises above the mountain of literature, autobiographical to clinical, on youth "alienation" to deserve amply Jack Newfield's praise as "the collective biography of the generation that was born on the New Frontier, baptized on the Mississippi Delta, and educated by Vietnam...
...case, the North Vietnamese have come to rely increasingly on their sanctuaries in Cambodia as a staging area for troops near Saigon and in the Mekong Delta. The chance to forbid them that safe haven tempts Washington. Yet attractive tactical opportunities can boomerang, as has happened in Laos. Anti-Communist forces there swept the enemy from the Plain of Jars last year, only to see them come back stronger than ever...
...particularly the landless tenant farmers. Well aware of the issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying a prosperous life. This will open a new era for the nation...
...Khmers were caught in the deadly vise of war between Siam (now Thailand) and Annam (now Viet Nam). The enmities between Indochina's present-day neighbors stem in no small part from these wars, which reduced Laos to a tiny mountain kingdom, robbed Cambodia of the rich Mekong Delta (Cochin China) and created, for the first time in history, a vigorous unity in Viet Nam between the South (Annam) and North (Tonkin...