Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iron Bombs. The Pentagon also revealed that the Soviet Union has developed highly mobile and quick-firing launchers for some of its SAM antiaircraft batteries. These launchers have been detected north of the DMZ in Viet Nam and could, said the military, be operating in Laos. U.S. experts have discounted reports by American pilots of an entirely new Soviet antiaircraft missile in Laos. It is now believed that standard Soviet ground-to-ground rockets, which cannot track aircraft, are being fired in the approach paths of U.S. planes in order to disrupt attack patterns...
...Force testimony before the Electronic Battlefield Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Forces Services Committee suggests that a major reason for the recent invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese and American military personnel is the destruction of a petroleum products pipeline running out of North Vietnam just north of the DMZ into Southern Laos...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's suggestion that it was "only a matter of time" before ARVN troops would drive north of the DMZ was designed to frighten Hanoi into keeping its reserve troops in place. But Hanoi's warning that such a thrust would bring China into the war seems to have ended threats of an invasion of North Viet Nam-a contingency that the U.S. would endorse only if the Lam Son forces were near annihilation...
...aware that any full-fledged attack against North Viet Nam could draw China into the conflict, and he has taken extraordinary pains to reassure Peking that U.S. policy does not threaten its interests. But he also knows that three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars are massed just across the DMZ. To discourage Hanoi from sending them to attack the ARVN troops in Laos, Nixon deliberately left open the possibility of a South Vietnamese counterattack across the DMZ...
Backing Up. Increasingly, however, it was enemy resistance that blocked faster movement. North Viet Nam moved two divisions out of areas south of the DMZ and into the Laotian panhandle, bringing total Communist troop strength along the trail to 30,000. Company-size units engaged the South Vietnamese in more than a dozen battles, usually night-time rocket and mortar attacks on lonely ARVN fire bases. In the heaviest fighting of the campaign, the Communists reportedly overran one base and cut off at least two others. South Vietnamese casualties officially rose to 147 dead and were probably much higher; Communist...