Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in retaliation, the U.S. mounted the biggest air strike of the war against the most important of the two MIG bases that had not yet been bombed. Navy and Air Force jets rolled in five times to smash the base at Phuc Yen, northwest of Hanoi, turning the sky into a tapestry of fireballs. Later, Marine planes from Danang ventured farther north than they normally do to make an unusual night raid on Phuc Yen. The Communists filled in many of the bomb craters overnight, but U.S. planes were back the next day to chew out more...
...nearly a month, the U.S. Army's famed 1st Infantry Division has been stalking an elusive quarry: the 271st Viet Cong Regiment, a hard-core Communist outfit that makes a specialty of terrorizing villages near "the Iron Triangle" northwest of Saigon. Last week, in the gloom of densely overgrown jungle trail 40 miles northwest of the capital, it was the 271st that found...
...with traditional electoral patterns changing and once invincible Democratic bastions crumbling, the major population centers are the places where next year's election, and many another to come, will be won or lost. Last year young, energetic, nondoctrinaire Republican candidates won victories from New England to the Pacific Northwest. If the G.O.P. plans realistically to capture the White House in 1968, it can do so only with the same sort of men-and a platform shaped to the needs of an urban nation sorely in need not of new faces alone but also of new ideas and the popular...
...third time in a month, they bombed a highway bridge only eight-tenths of a mile from Haiphong's heart, this time dropped the center span. Scratching another target from the dwindling list of forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate was probably right: smoke from the fire rose more than two miles into...
...northwest corner of Leatherneck Square, Con Thien is well covered by U.S. guns. Approximately seven miles south of it lies Cam Lo at the southwest corner of the square. About the same distance east lies Gio Linh, at the northeast corner, with Dong Ha to its south. All four outposts, in addition to others farther south, notably Camp Carroll, can provide artillery support for one another or reinforcements if necessary...