Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into the DMZ, killing...
...ending the war. One, which he clearly does not think very likely or desirable, contains a grim extension of Rockefeller's pullback proposal. It is nothing short of further partition of Viet Nam, in which Hanoi would be given South Viet Nam's northernmost province of Quang Tri and part of Thua Thien south of it. Another involves the creation of a third, more or less independent buffer state between North and South Viet Nam, carved out of both their provinces along the DMZ. A major drawback to these schemes is U.S. assurance to Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma...
...General William Westmoreland who decided that the base would have to be held. A withdrawal from North Vietnamese encirclement, difficult at best, would not only be a major political and psychological setback for the U.S., he reasoned, but would leave Quang Tri province and the cities of I Corps open to North Vietnamese attack. Before committing the U.S. fully to Khe Sanh's defense, however, President Johnson went to the extraordinary length of extracting a written pledge from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that it could be held...
...main posts. Senator Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government," the Premier declared at the Cabinet installation. "We will...
...Billion Program. Beyond the bombing issue, Hanoi is expected to propose that the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, which include the cities of Hué and Quang Tri, be turned into a buffer zone. That would be a tough proposal for the allies to accept, since it would effectively give Hanoi part of what it sought-and failed to get-in 1954: partition of the country near the 16th parallel instead of the 17th. The U.S. is likely to call for a return to the conditions set forth, and frequently violated, at Geneva in 1954, with emphasis...