Word: overran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mekong Delta 35 miles south of Saigon, South Vietnamese troops overran the Communist-held village of Tan Hiep, surprised and killed seven Viet Cong provincial officials in the midst of a meeting; the dead included the Reds' Dinh Tuong province chief and the political commissar of the Viet Cong's 261st Battalion. Later in the same operation, air-supported South Vietnamese soldiers killed an estimated 255 Viet Cong, whose unit had been spotted along a canal...
llyushins for Hanoi. Barely had the shock of the disaster worn off than the Viet Cong struck again-this time at Lethanh, a district capital in mountainous Pleiku province. In the initial assault, the Reds overran the town, held it for three hours while other Viet Cong units ambushed three relief convoys in succession at almost the same spot on the highway. The toll: 106 government soldiers dead, 20 wounded or missing. Other Viet Cong traps clanged shut near Kontum and Quin-hon, and a full battalion of Reds struck the town of Binhchanh, just ten miles west of Saigon...
...Strike Hard." Even as the decks were being cleared, Radio Hanoi blared an order to the Viet Cong to "strike hard, very hard, at the enemy on all battlefields." The Viet Cong lost no time in obeying. Guerrillas struck at two points near Danang, overran the town of Ducphong, beating to death four U.S. advisers, then killed another American and wounded a dozen in a battle outside Saigon. And at midweek, reports began reaching the capital that the Viet Cong had dealt the South Viet Nam army one of its worst defeats of the war in a battle near Phumy...
Nestled in a valley like a miniature Dienbienphu, the government strongpoint was attacked one night when hundreds of Viet Cong overran its two 4.2-mm. mortars, isolated on a nearby commanding hill. In a bitter three-day fight, the Reds virtually wiped out Anlao's 100 defenders. The attackers finally withdrew before air power and 1,000 counterattacking government troops, but there was concern over the capture of Anlao's guns-heaviest mortars the Reds have seized to date...
Western diplomats hardly shared the ecstasy, but they agreed that Laos has just a little more reason to be happy than usual. In recent months, since the Communist Pathet Lao overran the Plain of Jars last May, neutralist and rightist forces have regained 2,000 sq. mi. of territory. Route 13 north of Vientiane is now cleared of a Red blockade, as is intersecting Route 7 almost to the Plain of Jars. South of the Plain, right-wing troops captured 350 sq. mi. around Tha Thom. The Pathet Lao have often fallen back without a fight, and some 500 Communist...