Word: gia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lights are as likely to attract a Viet Cong bullet as a mosquito. Their backs to the glow from the city, South Vietnamese troops and their U.S. advisers settle back for a long night of watching-and, above all, listening. For the perimeter surrounding the 400 square miles of Gia Dinh province, which includes Saigon, is one of the most contested and dangerous parts of Viet Nam today...
...weapons, the crump of a single mortar, occasionally a scream as a knife finds its way through a rib cage. An "incident" may be anything from the skirmish of a dozen men to the blare of a propaganda bullhorn; whatever their nature, incidents are on the increase along the Gia Dinh perimeter. From February to April they averaged 37 a month. Through July the rate rose to 55 a month. Last month the total was 95, including four VC assaults in force, and 17 attacks with grenades and mortars...
...bill. When President Johnson signed it Aug. 6, he promised to enforce it with "dis patch," and Katzenbach went at the job with crackling alacrity. Dead-End Counties. Under the law's "automatic trigger" formula, the Gov ernment is empowered to send federal examiners into Alabama, Alaska, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro lina and Virginia, plus 26 North Caro lina counties and Arizona's Apache County, where literacy tests have been in use and where less than 50% of the voting-age population took part in the 1964 elections. The urgent problem was: Which counties to choose...
Pouncing on the government outpost at Ba Gia, a Viet Cong battalion killed 30 South Vietnamese and captured two 105-mm. howitzers. Ba Gia's defenders quickly snapped back, drove the Reds out and pinned them down while U.S. planes came in, inflicting heavy casualties. A second Communist blow fell farther to the west, where Viet Cong raiders overran the district capital of Dak To, then ambushed a relief column corning in by road from Kontum. Again the Reds could not hold onto what they had taken: after two days of fighting, the Viet Cong pulled...
...detailed according to the instructions of Mao Tse-Tung's handbook on guerilla warfare. The Viet Cong have paid much closer attention to their handbook than their Viot Minh counterparts in the days of war against the French; in particular there have been no set piece battles except Binh Gia and peasant indoctrination has been much more sophisticated. In the contrast of a (brilliant) masterplan, the May 2nd Committee's statement becomes mere distortions...