Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outburst of emotion demonstrated anew how difficult it will be to establish effective supervision of the ceasefire. A field team of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision also ran into an unexpected problem: it could not even get into Quang Tri city, south of the DMZ, because that town was under a heavy North Vietnamese artillery barrage. Two full weeks after the signing of the settlement there still was no effective truce inspection anywhere in the country...
...State: AFTER YOU READ THIS REPORT, YOU WILL NO DOUBT WANT TO DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE RESIST. WE HAVE ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS WE WILL EVER NEED. I WILL BE REPORTING MY ACTIONS. He also objected to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's notion of building a wire fence along the DMZ to keep Communist infiltrators out of South Viet Nam. He cabled Washington: HOW FAR ACROSS LAOS ARE YOU PREPARED TO STRETCH THE FENCE...
...hours before the cease-fire began, more than 400 South Vietnamese marines seized a beachhead on the Cua Viet River, the last natural barrier south of the DMZ. The following night, and again the night after, the North Vietnamese counterattacked, killing at least 150 of the marines...
...DMZ. This apparently was never seriously dealt with in the October draft. But when the talks broke down, Kissinger suggested that the North Vietnamese in effect wanted to ignore the DMZ as a boundary line, thereby reaffirming their contention that South Viet Nam is not a separate country, and that they were preparing to move troops through at will. The present agreement -defining the DMZ as a clearly marked if temporary dividing line and also affirming both the separate identity of South Viet Nam and the ultimate unity of the entire country-is ambiguous enough so that both the North...
...domestic recovery period need not engender new national egotism. It need not mean the rhapsodic nonsense of The Greening of America, nor the belligerency of the brass-collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure...