Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs, with whom he trades revolutionary lore. He comes by it honestly, for Bo is one of the Viet Minh's "old comrades." As a Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon, Bo's Southern mandarin background makes him an appropriate emissary not only for Hanoi but also for the Viet Cong...
...TACTICS. ARVN has tended to be defensive-minded, interested only in setting up a perimeter and then sitting back inside it and waiting. ARVN soldiers did little night patrolling, fought the war on a five-day week, with officers whipping off to Saigon for the weekend. In the populous Mekong Delta, local ARVN commanders were suspected of occasional "accommodations" with their Viet Cong counterparts, aimed at preserving the status quo and holding the fighting to a minimum. In this area Abrams sees notable improvement. Of ARVN's 149 maneuver battalions, he regards only nine as really unsatisfactory any longer...
Beating the Bushes. From the lush, Mekong Delta to the sterile Demilitarized Zone, the U.S. is hard-pressed to root out the enemy. In fact, the allies have managed to take the offensive in only one region-the 10,000-sq.-mi. Ill Corps area that arches around Saigon. In the war's largest operation, a three-week-old campaign called Resolved to Win, 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops are beating the bushes. Last week they stirred a series of sharp firefights; 527 Communists were killed, raising the sweep's total to some 2,400. Though...
...sake has somehow been confused with progress," Brower tells his audiences. And then, since the slogans are easy to ignore, he recites a list of some of the most outstanding mistakes planned in the name of progress--tapping the Yukon River for California, building an SST, or damming the Mekong in South Vietnam...
Nonetheless, as enemy shells fell on Saigon and at least 25 other places as far south as Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta and as far north as Phu Bai on the coastal plains of I Corps, there was considerable concern in Saigon and Washington. Intelligence officers were all too aware that, despite the doubtless inflated allied claims of 33,000 Communists killed earlier, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap still has at his disposal in South Viet Nam about 90,000 or so fresh troops that were not committed in the first round...