Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countryside, the Communists are busily reaping the harvest so painfully wrested from them over the past two years in allied operations: propagandizing the peasants, collecting rice and taxes and, above all, recruiting fresh soldiers for their depleted ranks-even impressing into their ranks some ARVN soldiers caught home on Tet leaves. About half of the South Vietnamese army was on leave when the Communists first struck nearly four weeks ago, and many ARVN soldiers have not yet returned to their units. The government's hope is that many of the missing offered their services to the nearest headquarters when...
...clustered in pockets of outposts or in major cities-from Khe Sanh, the western anchor, through the Rockpile, Camp Carroll and Con Thien to Quang Tri city, Hué and Danang. Few of the allied bases are accessible now except by air. Last week the North Vietnamese infiltrated a fresh division into South Viet Nam, bringing to 50,000 their troop concentration in 1 Corps. Enemy troops now virtually surround Quang Tri city. One division is poised north of Con Thien and Gio Linh...
...Corps, there was considerable concern in Saigon and Washington. Intelligence officers were all too aware that, despite the doubtless inflated allied claims of 33,000 Communists killed earlier, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap still has at his disposal in South Viet Nam about 90,000 or so fresh troops that were not committed in the first round...
...spartan format (29 pages mimeographed on one side and stapled together by hand) derives from the fresh and deliberate lack of pretense which has become The Island's trademark. This makes it an appropriate outlet for its material: "It allows us to print things which might not be perfect, but which ought to be read," as one of the three editors explains...
...Beset by foreign crises and committed to holding down spending at home, the President last week sent three domestic programs to Capitol Hill spelling out segments of his State of the Union speech. The President's oratory was as resonant as ever, but it masked an anemia of fresh ideas...