Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloodiest battle took place 45 miles northwest of Saigon. A 500-man Red contingent, which apparently slipped in over the Cambodian border five miles away, overran five adjoining strategic hamlets and one Self-Defense Corps post. Refusing to let the hamlets' 4,000 peasants flee for protection, the Viet Cong fought off 500 counterattacking paratroopers and other government contingents backed by dive bombers, napalm and artillery. Finally the Reds withdrew toward Cambodia, having inflicted the worst government toll of any single action so far in the war: 94 dead, 32 wounded...
...Decisions on great projects," said Board Chairman Kinsey M. Robinson of the Pacific Northwest Power Co., "are a long time in the making." Take it from one who knows...
Manufacturers & Biologists. Snelling and Snelling clients pay set fees: for an annual salary of $4,100 the charge is $255, for $10,400 it jumps to $965. Jobs nowadays are easier to find in the Northwest, Southeast and Rocky Mountain states, are more plentiful in such service-oriented industries as insurance, real estate and banking. Engineers, once the prima ballerinas of industry, are less in demand; calls for engineers two months ago dropped to their lowest point in more than three years. Many technicians, moreover, are leery about the uncertainties of defense work and sometimes will take pay cuts...
...troops. Immediately, the 700 Royal Marine Commandos of Britain's home-based strategic reserve were bundled onto Africa-bound planes. But before they arrived, Kenyatta's fears were realized. Mutinous troops of the Kenya Rifles stationed at Nakuru, in the heart of the Rift Valley 100 miles northwest of Nairobi, were up in arms. They seized the armory and locked their white officers and noncoms in the officers' mess. Their triumph was short-lived. In roared British Royal Horse Artillery in Ferret armored cars, and in a brief gun battle the rising was quelled, leaving one mutineer...
...Saigon-born, French-educated lawyer. But naturally, he is only a local coverup for North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends through provincial and district levels, down to the smallest village where the Reds roam...