Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swooping in low, they blasted eight oil dumps and an assortment of bridges, trucks, trains and barges in 702 separate missions over North Viet Nam. Most spectacular strikes were against the cratered ruins of a bombed-out North Vietnamese army camp at Badon, 75 miles north of the 17th parallel. For six successive days Air Force F-4C Phantoms dumped new bombs into the craters-which exploded into towering columns of greasy black smoke. Looking for hiding places for his remaining petroleum supplies, Uncle Ho had turned the camp into an oil dump...
...intelligence was fascinating. The 324th Division of the North Vietnamese army had crossed the border, it said, and had massed in Quang Tri province next to the 17th parallel's demilitarized zone. It was the first full division ever reported to have come down, it numbered 8,000-10,000 men, and its apparent mission was to deliver a sudden and overwhelming attack upon the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, including the old imperial city...
...TIME'S reference to a Napoleonic parallel involving Charles de Gaulle [July 1] is intriguing. On June 25, 1807, almost 159 years ago to the day that De Gaulle met with the chiefs of the Soviet government, Czar Alexander I of Russia met with Emperor Napoleon of France at Tilsit in Prussia. They embraced; they exchanged decorations and pledges of friendship. Like De Gaulle, Alexander hoped to play the role of peacemaker and to divide the European continent between Russia and France. Yet by 1812 the Emperor was sleeping in the Kremlin in a burning Moscow. I wonder whether...
Argument No. 3 concerns future U.S. policy. Goodwin does not differ with L.B.J. when he advocates a "parallel course" of fighting and offering to negotiate. He cannot understand why the enemy does not see the point. "Hanoi's unwillingness to negotiate is one of the great mysteries of the war." Goodwin leans to the dove school of thought that wants the Saigon government revamped to include Buddhists and neutralists and others more acceptable to the Viet Cong...
During the first five months of this year, southbound enemy truck traffic has doubled over that during the same 1965 period, while delivery of Red supplies south of the 17th parallel has jumped 150% and of troops 120%, to an estimated 4,500 men a month. As evidence, McNamara displayed a recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo...