Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revenue rose $3,700,000; abroad it grew by $2,100,000. That brought total revenues to $60.7 million, which represents a 10.5% jump over the same period last year...
...know," he added. Other experts, in Washington and in Saigon, share the general's puzzlement. Was this finally the long-awaited Communist signal for military de-escalation of the conflict and thus a hopeful step toward peace? Or was it, as in the past, simply a period of Communist rebuilding and refitting in preparation for yet another offensive...
...officers in Viet Nam are reluctant to use the term "lull" for the lack of contact with the Communists, but they readily admit that all their military indicators are down. Since June 29, weekly American fatalities have held below 200. During the last reporting period, July 20 to 26, 110 Americans died, the lowest toll so far this year. Communist attacks in III Corps, the vital area around Saigon, have dropped from a daily average of 30 in May to 25 in June and 15 in July. The other three corps areas report a similar trend. Nightly shellings of allied...
Another Push. Statistics have dipped before-only to soar again when the Communists started new offensives. During the period between October 1968 and February 1969, U.S. casualties were relatively low and there was talk then, as today, of a lull. At the time, U.S. commanders warned that the Communists were preparing for another push. Indeed, the lull ended abruptly-and bloodily-with the Communist post-Tet offensive. This time, however, more seems to be involved. "This lull is not merely one of statistics, but more of gut feeling," reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines from Saigon. "Some of the highest American...
...Hanoi signal of genuine deescalation, following a period of rethinking of strategy by Ho Chi Minh and his men. The allies generally assume that orders from Hanoi take around four weeks to filter down to Communist troops in the South. If President Nixon's eight-point Viet Nam proposal of May 14, which included a plan for mutual troop withdrawals, caused a reevaluation by the North Vietnamese, then orders implementing any changes would have reached Communist units by mid-June-just about the time the lull began. The theory is bolstered by the fact that a push, expected...