Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh's army has been trying to mount the attack since July, when the 324B became the first northern division to infiltrate across the narrow Demilitarized Zone-and, thanks to quick Marine action, the first northern division to be driven back across the border of the DMZ. In the beginning, according to U.S. intelligence reports, the Communists planned an outright invasion of the border province of Quang Tri. But the aggressive probing of Operations Hastings and Prairie has apparently thrown Hanoi's timing off. In the past month, more and more Marines have been shifted northward...
...presence of massive allied forces may have forced Ho Chi Minh to change his whole objective. Marine commanders now believe the Reds plan to concentrate their attack on a single American unit, overwhelm it, and if possible, wipe it out. The strike would be launched just before next month's U.S. elections, in hopes of convincing American voters that the price of the war is too high to continue. Besides, the Communists are in desperate need of a military victory. They have not had one for more than a year...
With Ho Chi Minh...
...rosewood and mother-of-pearl paneling and glass windows "as blue as the sky." Strictly chaperoned, she learned social work, painted landscapes, wrote poems to the Virgin Mary-and, at age 14, snatched away the billy club of a policeman beating a street peddler. Her family supported the Viet Minh war for independence, then was turned out of house and home by the victorious Communists...
...Marine battalions has been battling two entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars whose apparent aim is to invade Quang Tri province. So far the Reds have failed. Over the past few months, Hanoi's hordes have shifted away from their old infiltration route, the Ho Chi Minh trail, which empties into the isolated Central Highlands. Instead, more and more have been striking directly southward into the populous coastal plain (see map). The aim of the Marines' "Operation Prairie" is to cut those arteries from the DMZ and push the Reds so far west that they will once again...