Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karen children and spoke their language during my childhood in Burma. We found the Karens cooperative, very eager to learn and loyal. Their desire to improve themselves and their successes aroused the jealousies of the Burmese who were content to live off the lush plains of the Irrawaddy River delta. EDWARD F. MARSHALL Cohasset, Mass...
...Communists have dotted Cambodia's 600-mile frontier along South Viet Nam with dozens of jungle encampments, of which at least five are classified by U.S. intelligence as major bases (see map). The network, which stretches from the marshlands of the Mekong Delta into the bloodied hills of the Central Highlands, is believed to support six regiments of North Vietnamese regulars as well as innumerable Viet Cong guerrillas-a total of up to 20,000 men who are kept busy raiding and reconnoitering along the border. A key base is tucked away in Cambodia's "Parrot...
Despite fatigue, spirits were high. Considering their daily fight to survive in the tiny prison compound in the pestiferous heart of the Mekong Delta, their condition was remarkable. "Coming back," said Pitzer, "is like being born again...
...Johnson of Seaside, Calif. Only Pitzer and Jackson were present at the ceremony, sitting behind a long table next to Hieu; the Viet Cong kept Johnson in the next room, explaining that he was too sick with dysentery to appear. The three had been prisoners in the Mekong Delta, and it had taken them, said Hayden, a month to reach Pnompenh from there, "under strafing, bombing and reconnaissance." All three remained in Viet Cong hands after the meeting ended, presumably pending negotiations on getting them out of Cambodia, with which the U.S. has no relations...
Common Cruelty. What Willie belongs to is the dark, doom-laden Mississippi Delta and the town where he grew up-Yazoo (accent on the second syllable) City. He is adept at conveying the violence that simmers beneath the surface courtliness of the Deep South and often erupts in cruelty to Negroes -a cruelty, he admits, that he shared. At twelve, he pounced on a three-year-old Negro toddler for no good reason and beat him up. "My heart was beating furiously," he recalls, "in terror and a curious pleasure." Until he knew better, he thought only Negro women enjoyed...