Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Differences. Says Eugene Bable, a ranking U.S. official in the Delta: "You can say the villagers are doing it to save their own skins. But it was their skins before, and they remained passive." Two things have made the difference. The first spur was the deadly 1968 Tet offensive, which brought the war home to urban Vietnamese as never before. The Viet Cong occupied large sections of Phu Vinh, capital of Vinh Binh province, and killed 13 civilians be fore they were driven out. The second factor is a swashbuckling ex-actor named Tom Hayden...
...recent night in the village of Da Loc, in the Mekong Delta, seven civilians lay quietly in the mud. Cold rain dripped down their necks from the leaves of banana trees overhead. Suddenly, they spotted more than 20 black-pajama-clad figures creeping across the ripening paddies. At close range, the ragtag villagers opened fire with ancient rifles and M-l carbines. The Viet Cong attackers fled swiftly, leaving behind four dead and a prized Browning automatic rifle...
...villagers were members of the Popular Self-Defense Forces, a civilian militia movement that is fast taking hold in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh. Despite the search for peace, the fighting in Viet Nam continues, and as always, civilians are heavily involved. In the long history of the war, many things have been tried to make effective use of civilians - strategic hamlet enclaves, the regional and popular forces, which are a uniformed militia based in their home area and thus more familiar with local conditions than regular South Vietnamese or U.S. troops. But few past programs seem...
...Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, and has become the prime commercial charter carrier in an area where ground travel is usually difficult and often impossible. In Viet Nam, which is home for half of its 50-plane fleet, CAS links dozens of airstrips from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. Each month it carries 20,000 passengers and some 1,300,000 lbs. of cargo. Its customers, mainly U.S. contractors in Viet Nam, do not demand much in the way of frills. "Here you keep up your image by keeping your planes flying," says CAS Administrative Manager Jim Eckes...
...armed forces should be brought up to a high state of readiness. Consequently, the U.S. State Department wrestled down its objection to the junta and agreed to renewed shipments of heavy arms. The first consignment will consist of two minesweepers and 60 aircraft, including 22 F-102 Delta Daggers and five F-104 Starfighters. Though Washington tries to insist that the ban is only partly lifted, other heavy equipment, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, most likely will follow. Making the most of Greece's new strategic importance, the junta is demanding a 50% increase in U.S. aid, which...