Word: phu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province by the 101st Airborne Division, whose troopers have killed 149 of the enemy in the past 20 days...
South of Saigon, in the Mekong Delta, the nature of the enemy was laid bare in a gruesome incident. A Vietnamese force discovered 25 prisoners of the Viet Cong, mostly civilians and three of them women, shot in their chains at Phu Lam. Twenty were dead. The survivors disclosed that as the Vietnamese closed in, the retreating Viet Cong had told them that they could go free-then shot them in the back as they walked away in their chains...
...ventured that Hanoi's leaders expect domestic dissent and international disapproval to sap America's will to fight the far-off war. "They have not forgotten that the Viet Minh won more in Paris than in Dien Bien Phu, and believe that the Viet Cong may be as fortunate in Washington." In summary, he maintained that present U.S. strategy is "the best that has been suggested. Certainly it is not without risks-but little of value in this world...
...death was another grim example of the Communists' use of terrorism and atrocity against South Viet Nam's 37,000 local officials, more than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed in their mission...
...only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with government promises of progress and eager for what they fancy will be adventure, have been lured into the Phu Pan hills to join Communist-led bands...