Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong infiltrated to the boundary of the Danang airfield and the walls of the South Vietnamese I Corps Headquarters before being driven back. Then, in a domino pattern, the attacks moved southward through the coastal cities of Qui Nhon, Tuy Hoa and Nha Trang, leapfrogged over into the highland cities of Kontum and Pleiku and continued southward into the Delta?where some of the first attacks came only at week's end. The timing was as sequential as a mammoth string of Tet firecrackers going off one after the other, obviously aimed at tying down allied forces the progressive...
...Dalat, pleasure spot for South Vietnamese generals and site of the nation's fledgling military academy, the cadets got an early introduction to combat. The Viet Cong seized the highland town, still held it at week's end. On the Bong Son plain, where the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) has so often punished the enemy, the Communists hit an Air Cav base, destroyed two helicopters and penetrated the perimeter before being repulsed. At the Dong Ba Thien airfield just north of Cam Ranh Bay, attackers using satchel charges destroyed nine helicopters. In the Mekong Delta, long a Viet Cong haven...
...varied and difficult terrain in South Viet Nam, the jungled peaks and malarial valleys of the Central Highlands would seem least worth winning. Scant crops grow there, and scarcely any Vietnamese live there. The triple canopy of jungle foliage shadows the ground in a perpetual, skyless twilight. But, on the Highlands border where Laos and Cambodia meet, there is a valuable piece of real estate: a natural valley that funnels through the worst border mountains out into the gentler highland countryside rolling down to the sea. Astride the valley sits Dak To, until three weeks ago a dusty airstrip guarded...
...subsequent success of Surveyors 3, 5 and 6 enabled scientists to complete their planned surveys of possible astronaut landing sites and left Surveyor 7-scheduled to be launched early in 1968-for use in a completely scientific mission. Scientists are currently considering landing it in a highland basin, where it could photograph and analyze high-altitude features not yet investigated by U.S. or Russian landers...
...same story all over again last week, when Highland Park closed out its season by beating Denison High, 21-14. He gained 105 yds. on twelve carries, scored one touchdown, kicked the extra points and intercepted three passes on defense...