Word: mekong
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...this week he is scheduled to arrive in Saigon for a firsthand look. He intends to climb into khaki work clothes and set off with Harkins on an intensive field inspection, ranging from the new "strategic hamlets" in the highlands to the training camps of the Mekong Delta, where the Green Berets-the U.S. Special Forces-are instructing Vietnamese soldiers in everything from march discipline to weapons assembly...
...offensive. Flying from Saigon before dawn, 16 U.S. Army helicopters picked up a Vietnamese battalion. Their orders: to surprise 200 guerrillas that intelligence reports had located in the village of Cai Ngai, a Communist stronghold on the southeast tip of Viet Nam. Already in the area, concentrated in the Mekong Delta, were 1,500 government troops searching for the enemy in the mangrove swamps and inlets along the South China...
...many critics think was too chairborne and conventional-minded to deal with the hit-and-run tactics of the Communist Viet Cong insurgents. During one briefing session with Presidential Emissary General Maxwell Taylor last year, McGarr gave a detailed report on the numbers of Viet Cong guerrillas infiltrating the Mekong delta region. Taylor reportedly grumbled: "Why don't you kill 'em instead of counting...
...hear something of the people's feelings, TIME Correspondent Jerry Rose went on a three-week tour of the farms and villages, from the canal-laced Mekong delta to the lowland jungles of Darlac to the sagebrush plains of Pleiku. His report...
...Communist government of North Viet Nam is nervously looking toward the south. There, the Communist guerrillas are doing as well as ever, having extended their hold on the Mekong delta and the high plateau of South Viet Nam. But last week U.S.-supplied aircraft were dropping fiery chemicals to burn off jungle foliage from guerrilla hiding places along the Laos border. U.S. military advisers were training South Vietnamese battalions, and plans were under way to increase the South Viet Nam army from...