Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less grandiose scale than in 1968. Four North Vietnamese army divisions have been dispatched from the North to reinforce troops already in the war zone. Elements of the seasoned 5th, 7th and 9th divisions are believed to have slipped across the Cambodian border into the dense jungles northwest of Saigon; U.S. intelligence sources believe that the Communist troops are prepared to launch attacks on two hours' notice. At a checkpoint outside the capital last week, a load of Communist AK-47 assault rifles was discovered in a civilian truck...
...country captivated him, and he was outraged by the suffering he saw. In the course of covering China for the New York Sun and other publications, he gradually grew disillusioned with Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Snow decided that the mysterious rebels cooped up in the northwest by Chiang's troops were the wave of China's future...
...soldiers and camp followers slipped southwestward through the cordon. For a year, harried continuously by Chiang's armies, hunger, disease and local warlords, they walked west and north, 6,000 miles in all, to reach the barren cave-pocked lands near the Great Wall northwest of Yenan. Failure at any one of a dozen points would have meant extinction of Communist hopes, possibly forever; but success meant more than mere survival. Veterans of the Ch'ang Cheng would wage war against the Japanese and finally take over all China. Today, wreathed in age and honors like Mao, they...
...flawed but worthy American films. The first evokes a time when a man could win on style alone--the American Dream at its most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch female romance in the 1890's Northwest. The portrayal is vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original, American comedy, but director Alan Arkin slings more...
Classic Defense. Militarily, Saigon has been drawing its forces into a classic defense: main-force units and ranger battalions on the border, less reliable auxiliaries around the cities and towns. More than 10,000 South Vietnamese troops last week began scouring the border areas northwest of Saigon for signs of three North Vietnamese divisions known to be poised just inside Cambodia. Meanwhile, the air war continues. B-52 bombers have been striking Communist concentrations in the Highlands. Over North Viet Nam, a U.S. F-4 Phantom jet accounted for the first "kill" of an enemy MIG-21 in 22 months...