Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fighting continued in southern Lactian jungles where 16,000 South Vietnamese troops are attempting to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail North Vietnamese supply line...
When the allies invaded Cambodia last spring, exuberant South Vietnamese units thrust 24 miles into the Parrot's Beak area in the very first day. Last week, 14 days after the first ARVN troops pushed across the Laotian border to strike at the Ho Chi Minh Trail network, they had covered only some 15 miles and were coming under increasingly intense enemy pressure. U.S. commanders insisted that Operation Lam Son 719, despite its slow pace, was scoring military gains. But Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned President Nixon that the 17,000 ARVN troops and the 9,000 Americans...
Trouble starts when Arthur's son Simon skips to Canada to avoid the draft. A committed member of the counterculture, Simon has already earned the clan's enmity by sending a condolence letter to Ho Chi Minh at about the same time that Anna's boy was killed in Viet Nam. As retribution, Arthur is told to fly to Montreal and shoot his son. He has no intention of doing so, but out of cowardice makes the trip. On his return he is astonished to learn that Anna has been blown up by a bomb...
...interview yesterday General Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, said that the invasion had a limited objective, the destruction of enemy stockpiles. He denied that it was ever intended to seal off the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...field, South Vietnamese troops were stalled under heavy pressure from North Vietnamese and insurgent troops. Sources said the Laos drive was behind schedule and that one reason for the halt was heavy concentrations of mines along the Ho Chi Minh trail...