Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activity in the northern part, of South Viet Nam, the one part of the country where the rainy season has just ended. Taking advantage of the partial vacuum created by the departure of the U.S. Marines, the North Vietnamese are creeping back into Quang Tri province, just below the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Their repair of long unused road and river infiltration routes directly through the DMZ bodes ill for northern I Corps, always a vulnerable area and the scene of the war's bloodiest battles. Already Vietnamese have begun fleeing from the countryside into Danang, fearful that rural security...
Fourth Year. Hanoi set precise conditions for the repatriation. South and North Vietnamese ships flying Red Cross flags are to rendezvous in the South China Sea off the DMZ at 10:30 a.m. on June 4; there must be no military activity within an 18-mile radius of the rendezvous point on that day; Washington and Saigon must announce ahead of time "the number and characteristics of the ships transporting the patriots to be released." If those instructions were clear enough, however, what Hanoi was up to remained murky...
...stick. In a series of chest-beating radio broadcasts, Hanoi urged the Communist forces in South Viet Nam to "take advantage of our victory in Laos" by mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen and the hamlet chief. Farther north, in the Central Highlands, the seasoned...
North of Khe Sanh, some 20,000 Communist troops were poised above the Demilitarized Zone, while inside the DMZ the Communists massed a formidable array of tanks, mortar batteries, rockets, antiaircraft guns and heavy 152-mm. howitzers with an elevenmile range. The buildup-biggest in the DMZ since the 1968 bombing halt-might have been a reaction to allied hints that an invasion of North Viet Nam might be attempted if Lam Son were to turn sour. But some U.S. officers, fearful that it foreshadowed a period of relentless Communist shelling and possibly a fullblown invasion, rushed 7,000 additional...
...North Vietnam, the U.S. also stepped up its air war over the weekend, as more than 50 American fighter-bombers struck at supply depots up to 175 miles north of the DMZ. In Pentagonese the strikes were termed "limited duration protective reaction air strikes." Hanoi reported that two U.S. jets were shot down Sunday. The U.S. command said that no planes were lost...