Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, he has managed to play endless rubbers of bridge with Prince Souvanna, and tries to get in half a dozen sets of hard-slamming tennis a month. When trouble appears, Unger as likely as not will send his children out riding along the banks of the Mekong River on their Laotian ponies, Victory and Puck, to show family calmness. He accepts the topsy-turvy Asian world with wry good humor. "Any time you're really in trouble here,^ he says, "the telephones don't work...
...against the Pathet Lao but was unable to dislodge them from the hills above Mobile Group 13's escape route. With the help of several defecting neutralist battalions, the Reds smashed their way through Kong Le's headquarters at Muong Phanh, and turned to head for the Mekong River. A courageous but often inept commander, Kong Le fell back with his battered troops to Ban Na, on the southwestern edge of the plain. He managed to salvage ten tanks, but lost nine armored cars and four antiaircraft guns. All week long, small parties of neutralist troops made their...
...Americans who are desperately trying to hustle Premier Nguyen Khanh's regime into stepped-up action against the ever more aggressive Red guerrillas. The latest factor that hampers U.S. efforts is that old Asian standby, the rainy season, which is now beginning over South Viet Nam's Mekong Delta. As usual, while the mud and discomfort would seem to be the same for both sides, they favor the enemy...
Miserable Story. Casualty totals for April, during which the Viet Cong continued to roam the Mekong Delta almost at will, were the highest so far. The government suffered 610 killed, 1,630 wounded, 390 missing or captured (v. an officially estimated 1,700 Viet Cong dead). The toll of Americans last month was six killed, 101 wounded. According to one U.S. official, General Nguyen Khanh's "clear-land-hold" program in the delta is making "practically no indent at all," and Long An province south of Saigon is "a miserable story...
...paper hawks wheel and dive. Thai boys get their first kites about the same age that U.S. youngsters get their first baseball gloves, and most of them dream about growing up to be another Poon Yuvaniyom, who is the closest thing to a Mickey Mantle west of the Mekong...