Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well aware that the Reds would use the truce to reposition their forces-as they did to move men and supplies southward-U.S. troops kept up a steady surveillance. In War Zone C 75 miles northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, the U.S. mounted "Operation Gadsden" shortly before Tet to prevent the buildup of the Viet Cong's tough 9th Division. Though two companies of American infantrymen were lured into an ambush and took "moderate" casualties in escaping, the U.S. sweep gained good field positions for the post-truce period. It also turned up and destroyed...
...aren't many spy-westerns hanging around). Every thing has been done before, and in nine out of ten cases by Alfred Hitchcock. But if the writers and directors of spy movies feel free to borrow from The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, and on down the line, they have almost universally suffered by the comparison thus brought upon themselves...
Composed of jungle, paddyfields and a network of concrete bunkers just 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the Iron Triangle also conceals scores of Viet Cong military base camps, supply depots and field hospitals, all connected by miles of underground tunnels. Intelligence reports indicated that it was the headquarters of the Viet Cong's Fourth Military Region, which commands Communist activities in and around Saigon and had placed practically all hamlets in the area under Communist control. The U.S. has bombed the place repeatedly in the past 18 months but the only previous venture of U.S. troops into the area...
Swirling Battle. The ambush was classic in its simplicity. Out of Thailand swept 14 flights of Air Force Phantoms, heading toward "MIG Valley," the industrial envelope 30 miles northwest of Hanoi. American intelligence officers had already noted that the North Vietnamese usually scrambled their fighters when U.S. planes approached this sensitive sector, but this time the 50 incoming planes were not cumbersome fighter-bombers. Instead, the Phantoms were flying "clean," without the bombs and extra fuel tanks that reduce maneuverability. To North Vietnamese radar, however, they looked just like fighter-bombers, and up came the MIGs to harass them. What...
...superstitious, plagued by self-doubt, Campbell kept talking himself into retirement and right back out again. "Donald," says a psychiatrist who knew him, "was always trying to prove himself to himself and to his father and to the world." Last week, on Coniston Water, a small, deep lake in northwest England, Donald Campbell, 45, tried for yet another water-speed record in a jet-powered Bluebird hydroplane designed to skim the surface on two 6-in. sponsons fastened to the pontoons. His goal: 300 m.p.h., a speed realm that no one had ever touched. Playing solitaire on the night before...