Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next came a riverboat foray in the Mekong Delta ("We took some sniper fire"). After that, Owen got his chance to go out with the 1st Infantry in the "boonies" near Lai Khe. Save for Providence Journal stitched over his left shirt pocket, he was garbed-and armed -like every other foot slogger in the detachment...
Down in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese infantrymen flushed another hidden hard-core Viet Cong unit into fierce fighting scarcely 40 miles southwest of Saigon. The Communists blasted back with machine guns and 57-mm recoilless rifles. Saigon soon concluded that it had a veteran Viet Cong battalion at bay, ordered in the largest number of Vietnamese troops to be used in a single battle in the long war to try to encircle and crush the Reds...
...hundred country roads and rivers from Danang to the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese soldiers were guarding strategic installations, escorting convoys, opening routes, and clashing with small but savage Viet Cong bands whose bullets were just as merciless as those of the North Vietnamese around Plei...
...interests were remarkably diverse. For years an expert on Indian economy (1961's Indian and the West), she is now actively engaged on a book dealing with African problems ("hopefully to be finished next year"). Southeast Asia holds particular interest since her husband is a consultant to the Mekong power project...
...determination from the poor Tibetians?...I understand that 60% of the Vietnamese land is still owned by the old landlords. Really! Land reform ought to be put through at once. We have to give the peasant a stake in his own country -- something to fight for...I think the Mekong power scheme is terribly exciting. It's one of the world's great power sources and the whole area could benefit from it. We should pop in a UN defense now to protect the scheme." As for American policy, she maintained that there's absolutely no cause for pulling...