Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first operation, in the Mekong Delta, Major Rogers rolled out of hammock at 3:30 a.m., marched all day under a brain-beating sun, through paddyfields and up to his armpits in irrigation ditches, ready to give instant advice. The Vietnamese commander barely spoke to him. That night, after washing out his muddy clothes in a canal, Rogers sat patiently waiting to be consulted - but neither offering advice nor being invited to give...
Forest of Darkness. Saigon's biggest victory last week came in the Mekong Delta, where government troops set an elaborately bloody trap for the Viet Cong. Since 1945 the Communists had held sway over the delta's mangrove-choked Uminh ("Forest of Darkness"), which Vietnamese legend said was inhabited by werewolves. Not even the French were able to penetrate it. Managing to lure two Viet Cong battalions out of the forest and into a "hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with...
...program, which will feature half-hour speeches by John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Benjamin I. Schwartz ', professor of History and Government, and professors from other schools, will run from 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. A Shell Oil Co. film on the Mekong Delta will be shown during the evening...
...meaningless agreement." Since the condition for an end to U.S. military involvement is that Ho Chi Minh call off an army that is not his to command, it is Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" that is meaningless. The offer of $1 billion of aid to develop the Mekong delta and the expressed desire to see peace returned to that part of the world are an attempt to place the blame for continued fighting on the National Liberation Front, Hanoi, and China: "Merely negative responses from the Communists--should Hanoi and Moscow follow Peking's lead--will only make crystal...
Bloody Scuffle. From Danang to the Mekong Delta patience was growing thin last week on both sides. Taking the initiative, some 3,000 South Vietnamese marines slogged through 38 slimy canals south of Saigon batting away leeches even as they caught slugs from Communist snipers. The toll was light-18 Viet Cong killed-but it was the first government offensive since December in the delta, and U.S. advisers hoped it would encourage the government troops to undertake bigger and more effective pushes not only in the delta, but throughout the country...