Word: northern
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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...
...carrier Oriskany, paid brief visits to Danang, Cu Chi and the rapidly building military port of Cam Ranh Bay. But the highlight of his trip was the 3rd Marine Division's forward command post at Dong Ha, where he got an on-the-spot briefing of the northern battle lines. Included in the briefing: a helicopter flight over enemy positions...
While his northern boss was out of town, Loc fired northern doctors from comfortable Saigon jobs, transferred them to clinics in the interior and gave their places to his southern friends. He did not get away with it. On the orders of National Police Commander General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a northerner, Loc was arrested, and the battle was on. Infuriated at such highhanded treatment, the southern Cabinet ministers demanded that Ky fire his police chief. Ky refused, but attempted to mollify the southerners by accepting the resignation of Health Minister Nguyen Ba Kha. In response, seven of the 26 members...
...appeal to the dissenters not to destroy government unity on the eve of the Manila Conference, got them to agree to pocket their resignations for the time being. But the crisis was merely postponed. The southerners have put a price on their continued collaboration with Ky: an end to "northern domination," and the dismissal of General Loan, whose tough tactics, they insist, give the regime "the image of a police state...
Married. Melvin Belli, 59, California lawyer best known for his pyrotechnics in prosecuting negligence suits until he leaped to the defense of Jack Ruby in 1964; and Patricia Montandon, 34, San Francisco model; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Jozankei, a hot-springs resort in northern Japan, where, dressed in kimonos, they went through a Shinto ceremony...