Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third captured the town of Dak Sut; U.S. Special Forces defenders were bloodied at Bu Dop and Due Co. Talk of neutralism began to stir the cities of the South as the fledgling military regime of Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky-the tenth Saigon government since Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in November 1963-shakily took power in June...
Duong Thien Dong, president of the Saigon Medical Students Association, said that the present government exerts less control than did that of Ngo Dinh Diem, and that he thinks students "no longer trust in one personality." But he added the youthfulness of members of Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky's administration had attracted the respect of the student movement...
...tung's guerrilla rule-book arrested, but the V.C. found themselves being rooted out of havens they had long considered invulnerable. Twice in the last month-first near Ben Cat in the "Iron Triangle" north of Saigon, then last week in Operation Concord in Binh Dinh province-rhas-ciwc allied sweeps penetrated preserves lethally off limits to anyone but Communists for 15 years...
...them off balance, erode their influence. For the present, the U.S. is less interested in expanding its geography than in wearing down the enemy. The priority targets, as the U.S. sees them now: first, the U.S. Marines' Hué-Danang-Chu Lai area, then as much of Binh Dinh province as can be cleared, finally the Hop Tac region around Saigon...
...very success of U.S. firepower so far is likely to make big kills harder and harder to come by, as Operation Concord in Binh Dinh province last week proved. An estimated 45,000 Viet Cong have been in Binh Dinh, and in the largest operation of the war, 14,000 allied troops went in at three points to try to kill a sizable batch of them. Two hundred helicopters made 358 sorties to drop 5,500 men into Suoi Ca Valley, where a V.C. regiment was reported. Another 2,500 of the First Team were out to clear "Happy Valley...