Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of overthrow of former priemier Ngo Dinh Diem, Vu asserted, "the temptation was very great... to start a 'united-front' with he communists." But the Vietnamese people consciously chose not to," Vu said. "They would not easily forget the blood-stained experience of condition government with the communists in 1945-46," he added...
...Refugees. While the 2nd was digging out a home at Cu Chi, the U.S. Marines were abandoning An Lao Valley, the object of Operation Double Eagle, which began three weeks ago as part of a massive allied offensive in Binh Dinh province. The marines accounted for 312 enemy dead, but Double Eagle got its claws into little really organized opposition. Unfortunately, the enemy will likely soon slip back into fertile An Lao: Saigon does not have enough South Vietnamese troops to follow the marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers...
...after World War II to mold Viet Nam into a tractable nation by vesting authority in a central government and playing off one village against another. Instead, the Viet Minh imposed a harsh unity in the country side that broke the French grip. In South Viet Nam, President Ngo Dinh Diem hoped to form a nation that was safe from Viet Cong influence by gathering the peasants into fortified hamlets. That idea died behind the barbed wire of the hamlets in 1963-along with Diem...
...four years the pleasant coastal plain of Binh Dinh has been a private Communist demiparadise of palm-topped villages and emerald paddies. But underneath paradise were the ubiquitous mole holes of the Viet Cong -an estimated 3,000 strong in the area. It was, as one U.S. officer put it, "V.C. Fat City-mighty pleasant living for them." That came to an abrupt end early one rainy morning when the first helicopter assault forces of the 1st Air Cav took off from Moore's staging area, called "Dog," and headed for LZ-4, a landing zone nestled between...
...destroy" tactic; but its review of the military history revealed a stunning ignorance of facts. It stated that the allies "have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam." This if flatly contradicted by last week's operation in Binh Dinh and Quang Nai provinces, as well as previous operations such as that in the Delta's "Iron Triangle" which was a Communist stronghold since 1950. The editorial stated that "All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from...