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...time, elephants were the villages' chief source of farm labor, and the villages themselves were of strategic value to U.S. forces because they lay on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the Viet Cong supply route...
Glover, as a U.S. green beret commander, squares off against up-and-coming green beret leader Ray Liotta. The two disagree over how to handle relations with a mountain village on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and while they are off on a scouting mission, a group of Viet Cong enter the village and punish the locals for helping Americans by shooting their elephant...
...Reported by Dean Fischer/Washington, Tim Larimer/Hanoi and Carey Zessiger/Ho Chi Minh City...
Thao and Trang Ho and their father came to the U.S. from Ho Chi Minh City as Vietnamese boat refugees in November 1985, Thao Ho said. "My mother and my younger sister came in 1990, in October," Thao Ho added...
...into Vietnam in an attempt to force the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. At the same time his fear of "escalation" led him to hamstring the military's efforts to push northwards toward North Vietnam or to disrupt the enemy's supply lines, the so-called "Ho Chi Minh Trail" that went through a nominally neutral Laos...