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...American strategists envisioned, the intensive bombing of the Indochinese countryside has stimulated the urbanization of the area. In the northernmost provinces of South Vietnam, however, people continue to live in the countryside, which is why the U.S. and Saigon sought earlier this year to resettle these residents in areas of the far South. Unfavorable publicity in the U.S. press forced the cancellation of relocation plans...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Even the Pawn Must Hold a Grudge | 12/17/1971 | See Source »

...should relocation occur? The U.S. was either planning to step up the conventional bombing of northernmost South Vietnam and-or to use tactical nuclear weapons to stem infiltration from North Vietnam. In either case, but especially in the case of tactical nuclear weapons, it would be more "desirable" to have the civilians out of the way beforehand...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Even the Pawn Must Hold a Grudge | 12/17/1971 | See Source »

...Nixon took the world by surprise when, pointer in hand, he went on nationwide TV to disclose, in too apocalyptic terms, the expansion of the war into Cambodia. Last week he said nothing at all about the vast operation under way in Military Region I, South Viet Nam's northernmost war area. When a six-day "embargo" on news from the area was lifted, more than 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were involved in strikes that not only spanned the length of South Viet Nam but vitally affected its neighbors as well. Was the main object to sever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Indochina: A Cavalryman's Way Out | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...That find and others like it have strengthened Washington's belief that the Communists are scrambling to restock the sanctuaries along the South Vietnamese border that were cleaned out last spring. The Communists already pose a threat to South Viet Nam's I Corps. the northernmost military region. If they continue to establish supply lines and depots through the Laotian panhandle and northeastern Cambodia, they will be in a position to strike hard at II Corps (the Central Highlands) and III Corps (Saigon's hinterland). The threat to withdrawing U.S. troops, according to this line of speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Indochina: Blunting a Buildup | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...blacks threatened with transfer to the northernmost region of the Division's area of operation-the most dangerous place-at the slightest provocation...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Bringing the War Home . . . (II) | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

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