Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years, the northwest corner of South Viet Nam had been a misty, mountainous no man's land. Khe Sanh, where 6,000 Marines had endured a bloody 77-day siege in 1968, was a moonscape of shell craters flecked by twisted steel runway sheets and discarded shell casings. A few miles to the south, the Rockpile was overrun by weeds. On a bluff overlooking the Laotian border, the hulks of battered Soviet tanks still lay rusting at the Lang Vei Special Forces camp, where ten Americans and 225 South Vietnamese died in a single night of hand-to-hand...
...buildup for the sweep into Laos began 10 days ago with the movement of 20,000 South Vietnamese troops and 9,000 U.S. troops into South Vietnam's northwest corner along the Laotian border...
...bombers saturated the southern part of Laos and the northwest corner of South Vietnam over the weekend in preparation for an imminent U.S.-supported invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese troops...
...officials dismiss the possibility of a Berlin-style airlift for the Cambodian capital. The Communists have not committed the troops needed to pinch off all of its road links at once, but they have hit each often enough to make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...
...nation. Every statistic shows that rural medicine lags far behind what is available in urban areas. Good city hospitals lure the best doctors from nearby medical schools; they get the most research money, clinical practice and high-fee patients. But Cooperstown, a dairy-and poultry-farming community 200 miles northwest of New York City, is a remarkable exception. Reason: it has the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, a mini-medical center that ranks among the best...