Word: indochina
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...South Vietnamese city of An Loc, a provincial capital only 60 miles north of Saigon, has been under siege almost since the North Vietnamese offensive began on March 30. Surrounded by three Communist divisions, An Loc has been shelled daily in the heaviest artillery barrage of the entire Indochina war. It has also endured repeated ground assaults by North Vietnamese troops and tanks and incessant air attacks by U.S. fighter-bombers, gunships and B-52s on the city and its outskirts. A South Vietnamese relief column has remained stalled for two months by enemy gunfire along Highway...
John Paul Vann was a legendary figure in the long history of the U.S. presence in Indochina. A romantic and a perfectionist, he retired from the army in 1963 after a dispute with senior U.S. officials over American policy in South Viet Nam. After returning two years later as a civilian adviser, he conducted the notably successful pacification program in the Mekong Delta with his usual impatience and abrasiveness. Thirteen months ago he became the senior American adviser in the Central Highlands. By the time he died last week in a helicopter crash, while flying by night from his headquarters...
...Kontum. "There is nothing else for him now," TIME Correspondent John Mulliken wrote recently, "but the saving of Kontum. Like a French colonial, he has no real ties any more with home. He will live out at least the last of the creative part of his life in Indochina...
THOUGH good things have a way of coming to an end, the bad ones don't depart unless we force them to. Of all the issues of the last year, the Indochina War remains the most persistent, the most cruel, the most shameful. Four years ago, few would have predicted that the war which forced Lyndon Johnson into retirement would be prosecuted on ever-higher levels of mechanized slaughter in the spring of 1972. But Nixon's "peace" plans are only aimed at American voters. In Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, his plans call for victory over all efforts for independence...
...meeting voted to strike for five days to protest the Indochina War and to support the Mass Hall takeover. A variety of resolutions passed urging students to participate in local antiwar actions, work for antiwar candidates in then upcoming Massachusetts Presidential primary, and support the black students by joining the picket line circulating in front of Mass Hall. It also created a central coordinating committee to direct strike actions...