Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's new opera. The Fisherman and His Wife . But now that the Back Bay Theatre has been torn down, the Company has to search hard to find a place to perform. This year's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment had to be held in a hall at Tufts University in Medford. This effectively closed the performance to people south of Boston, and to students without cars...
...11th Armored Cavalry Regiment yesterday burned at least five 30-40-hut villages in another part of the Fishhook. Officers explained that the villages were burned because they could be of use to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese...
...month, the Corps' Third Amphibious force turned over command of I Corps, the northernmost sector of South Viet Nam, to the Army. Last week the 26th Marines, which earned fame and a Presidential Unit Citation at Iwo Jima, was withdrawn and returned to Camp Pendleton, Calif. There the regiment will be deactivated...
...recent case is also under investigation. Five Marine enlisted men have been charged with murdering eleven children and five women last month at the hamlet of Son Thang, about 27 miles south of Danang. All are members of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Division's 7th Regiment. A military board convened at Danang last week and will decide whether the five must face court-martial...
...promised to furnish the Saigon government. ADVISORY PERSONNEL, now numbering nearly 80,000, will be reduced by about half. Most of the cuts will be made at the lower command levels; instead of being assigned to every ARVN battalion, U.S. advisers will no longer operate below the regiment or brigade level. Wherever possible, major generals will be replaced by brigadier generals, brigadiers by colonels. Their staffs will be reduced accordingly. As South Vietnamese commanders become more confident, the advisers' role will also change, and U.S. personnel attached to South Vietnamese units will become liaison officers coordinating...