Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military insists that the province will not fall. Others are not so sure. The few local people who can afford it are reportedly paying up to eight times the official price for tickets on Air Viet Nam's twice-weekly flights...
Obviously in preparation for the Kissinger talks, the Soviet Union dispatched Kosygin to Cairo, where he conferred with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. There were unconfirmed reports that Kosygin made specific proposals for a peace plan, including a "partial" Israeli pullback from the 1967 cease-fire lines and a DMZ, separating Israel from its neighbors, that would be patrolled by U.N. troops, some of them from the U.S. and Russia. Kosygin had been back in Moscow for only a few hours before Kissinger...
...comply. As one U.S. military expert puts it, "they can be back in Laos in 48 hours." Moreover, the North Vietnamese are no longer wholly dependent on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as a supply route to South Viet Nam: Highway 14 across the Communist-controlled DMZ has been reopened...
Unfortunately, it was difficult to ignore the visual impact of the events at Wounded Knee. The most powerful picture taken there shows AIM security officials capturing six Federal agents, who had ventured into the "DMZ" between the Federal and Indian roadblocks. A UPI photographer caught the six Federal officials, hands high above their heads, being led to the Indian security office. Almost every major newspaper in the country carried the photo the next...
...press, well-versed in military terms after a decade of Vietnam, quickly dubbed the two mile stretch between the roadblocks the "DMZ." In the final two weeks of the siege, a third series of roadblocks, manned by the Oglala Tribal Council, was thrown up outside of the government check-points...