Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the U.S. State Department sent an apology to Sihanouk, but at the same time took care to set the record straight. The allied unit involved had received heavy fire from a South Vietnamese village located in a border pocket and surrounded on nearly three sides by Cambodian territory. The allied troops attacked and then took the village, and the Viet Cong retreated into Cambodia, firing as they went. In the melee, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers penetrated some 75 yards into Cambodian territory. "It was not planned," said the State Department. "It occurred in the heat of battle...
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