Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unhealthy zones." With the military undergoing its umpteenth reshuffle, the 7th Division, south of Saigon, got its fifth commander in five months. A widely advertised "pacification" drive in the area was at a standstill. Only two months of the dry season-the best time for chasing guerrillas-remained, and Mekong Delta peasants allowed that the rains would come early this year...
...Pentagon's own admission the situation has deteriorated considerably in the last six months. By the end of January the number of incidents provoked each week by the Vietcong had risen sharply over the average for the previous half-year. The Communists control 70 per cent of the Mekong River delta; five per cent of all American weapons sent to Vietnam fall into the hands of the Vietcong. And Communist terrorism has been stepped up to the point where American G.I.s are now being killed in the streets of Saigon...
...hand-wringing American adviser where the troops were that were supposed to have surrounded the camp, the Vietnamese officer in charge confessed that they had stopped in the last paddyfield to cook their own breakfast. Last week, in a Jeep bouncing along the dirt road outside Tanan in the Mekong Delta, a young U.S. Army captain cheerfully explained to TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch how a new "clear and hold" operation was to sweep his area clean of Communists. In mid-sentence he stopped, ordered his driver to turn around. Just ahead, atop a tree, rippled the yellow-starred flag...
...time stepping up the war. Unleashing their biggest offensive since November, the Reds increased small-scale harassments and terrorism, launched a rapid-fire series of battalion-size attacks. In Vinh Long province, the Viet Cong murdered the mother of the army's intelligence chief for the southern Mekong Delta. In Saigon, a Communist-planted bomb exploded in the Playboy Bar, killing five Vietnamese and wounding 40 other patrons, including six Americans...
...system, complete with censors and stamps printed in Hanoi. For weeks, Radio Liberation has been triumphantly boasting that the organization held its "second national congress" early in January in a secret "liberated area." The 150 delegates were said to have demonstrated "a mood of patriotism as mighty as the Mekong River...