Word: gio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...ARVN. Already the first units of the ARVN 1st Division are in place on the eastern anchor. Newly armed not only with the M-16 but also with M-60 machine guns (as will be all the ARVN this year), the Vietnamese 1st will soon take over Gio Linh, Con Thien and all the exposed positions where the Marines have taken such heavy casualties in the past year. This changing of the guard along the vital DMZ line is a measure of the new respect for the ARVN. It is also an earnest omen of the responsibilities that it must...
...week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
Their losses have been large. In clashes last week alone, the Communists lost 54 dead at Gio Linh near the Demilitarized Zone in the northern province of Quang Tri, 56 near Danang, 471 at Bong Son in the center of the country along the coast, 143 north of Saigon, 39 northwest of the capital, and 501 in the Mekong Delta in the south. In all, 65 Americans and 78 South Vietnamese died in the battles. Meanwhile, Ho's homeland was heavily pounded last week by U.S. fighter-bombers. As monsoon clouds cleared for the first time in three weeks...
...Stuart Symington had urged a bombing pause in the North and a cease-fire in the South as a means of testing Hanoi's intentions, Kuchel warned that a suspension of the air war now "would result in grievous harm to our men fighting at Con Thien and Gio Linh" as well as other points near the Demilitarized Zone...