Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, they have not been able to prevent the Communists from destroying bridges, blockading key arteries, attacking outposts and terrorizing local officials. Hanoi's forces have come close to cutting South Viet Nam in half at the Central Highlands, and have threatened the precious rice harvest in the Mekong Delta. Saigon reports an average of 80 enemy incidents...
...small but bloody skirmishes. In the Central Highlands province of Quang Due, bordering on Cambodia, outnumbered and outgunned Saigon troops are currently locked in a bitter struggle to retake key outposts lost to North Vietnamese units earlier this month. A deadly war of attrition continues in the soggy green Mekong Delta, where the rice is ready for harvest. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott visited both combat zones last week and filed this report...
...holdings significantly. Saigon's air force has been flying up to 100 sorties daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province, deep in the Mekong River Delta, the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) has systematically nibbled away at Viet Cong positions...
...Cambridge's school system. The only book on Nixon, Helen Olds's Richard M. Nixon, in the King School library, glorifies "an honest lawyer who doesn't cheat people but helps them." And the Harrington School library's only book on Vietnam, Vietnam and the Countries of the Mekong, by Larry Henderson, openly justifies American imperialism in Asia...
...chopper spiraled down from its 4,500-ft. cruising altitude, darted over the flood-swollen Mekong toward a riverbank landing spot. Cambodian soldiers sucking Buddha amulets for luck leaped from the helicopter, lugging cases of food and ammo as they sprinted for shelter. As I jumped out of my seat and sloshed through knee-deep water toward the shore, insurgents began firing at us: the pilot had ill-advisedly put us down in a no-man's land between the two forces. We were lucky...