Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month the Viet Cong "main force" has been lying low, refusing to tangle with the South Vietnamese army. Communist-provoked incidents have dropped from a peak of 1,020 a week during December (long before U.S. air strikes began) to 400 a week last month. In the critical Mekong Delta, South Viet Nam's prized and hotly-contested "rice bowl," night attacks by the Viet Cong slumped to the lowest level in years...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at a rare example of international cooperation in Southeast Asia: the project to control the Mekong River...
Hope was in Saigon on Christmas Eve when terrorists bombed the officers' quarters known as the Hotel Brink. Doing a show on Christmas Day at a helicopter base in the Mekong Delta, Hope told the assembled troops: "A funny thing happened to me when I was driving through downtown Saigon to my hotel last night. We met a hotel going the other...
...only from Viet Nam. but from all of the Asian mainland. "It will be done as part of some much larger and more elaborate diplomatic proposal and action-one directed at something far bigger than South Viet Nam-at an Asian settlement from Siberia to the Himalayas, from the Mekong to the Yalu...
From the swamps of the Mekong Delta in the south to the North Vietnamese border, the Viet Cong launched one of their hottest offensives of the war. But even as more Vietnamese and American soldiers died in the unending nightmare struggle against the Communist guerrillas (nine deaths last week raised U.S. killed to 331), South Viet Nam's Buddhists announced their firm determination to destroy what little stability remains in the country...