Word: overran
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...northern Lebanon, the leftists overran isolated Christian villages, seizing town halls and looting police stations of arms and ammunition. East of the capital, an estimated 2,000 soldiers of the P.L.A. crossed from Syria into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Helping the local militia and other Palestinian units already in the country, they captured Chtaura, a strategic town of 5,000 Christians on the Beirut-Damascus highway, and tightened the seige around Zahle, the major city in the Bekaa...
Bush Pilots. That is an understatement. The football-field ceremony ended more than 90 years of mostly benevolent foreign rule by, in turn, Germany, Britain and Australia. Except for a few years during World War II, when Japanese troops overran much of the island, Australia had governed Papua-the island's southeastern quadrant-since 1906, and adjoining northeastern New Guinea since World War I under League of Nations and U.N. mandates. Prodded initially by the U.N. and by its own dislike of the colonial image, the Whitlam government fairly rushed the reluctant colony into self-rule...
...started probing key government positions in the Saigon area. Often, as at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours before government troops drove them...
...bloody, hand-to-hand combat, to capture the twin towns of Banam and Neak Luong. The victory freed some 4,000 Khmer Rouge troops who were reported to be making their way up the Mekong in sampans for the looming assault on the capital. To the east, the attackers overran several government positions to come within mortar and rocket range of the main navy base at the Chrouy Changvar promontory on the Mekong River. To the southeast, the Khmer Rouge pushed within eight miles of the city limits...
...Provisional Revolutionary Government and the NLF were still "the political arm of the Viet Cong" and "Communist-led forces," and the Republic of Vietnam, now little more than an enclave around Saigon, was still "South Vietnam." In United Press International's dispatches, North Vietnamese troops and the NLF "overran" province after province. And Time attributed many of Saigon's difficulties to Montagnard tribesmen "who, as despised fourth class citizens in South Vietnam, were ripe for exploitation by the Communists," and who now "infested" much of the country where they were fourth-class citizens...