Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington to end bombing of the North on a quid pro nil basis. Thant has already urged the U.S. to "show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that pressure until the day when Hanoi unequivocally signals its willingness to negotiate on bona fide terms...
...value to fight over. But it is strategically situated at the axis of six other nations with which it shares common borders: Red China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers and construction workers. North Vietnamese troops operating in South Viet Nam frequently...
...their runs over the North, attempting by feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft and one-tenth of its total air strength...
...Stop Firing!" The Minh Quy hospital, supported by several small Roman Catholic charities, is now a complex of six whitewashed buildings that are almost as overcrowded as the old dispensary. For its 40 beds there are 120 patients; fortunately, many of them actually prefer to lie on mats on the floor or on porches outside the buildings. There are no minor illnesses. "When a Montagnard comes in from his village," says Dr. Smith, "we take it for granted that he's malnourished, mostly from protein deficiency, that he has intestinal parasites and also malaria. After that, we ask what...
Three main force Viet Cong units operate out of U Minh, "The Forest of Darkness," and Air Force fighter-bombers pounded the drop area with bombs and napalm before the big jump-largest in more than a year. Another 4,800 South Vietnamese infantrymen were helilifted into the search-and-destroy mission, which in its first two days netted 89 enemy dead and a rich cache of weapons. More important, it may well be a prelude to the imminent entry of U.S. troops into the Delta...