Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 500 Viet Cong tunnels in the Iron Triangle, U.S. soldiers last week snared the biggest nest of all: a vast underground city in Ho Bo woods on the triangle's western flank that almost surely housed the headquarters of the Viet Cong's Fourth Military Region, which includes Saigon. Heavily booby-trapped, it contained French and U.S. maps, diagrams of the hotels and billets that house Americans in Saigon, detailed plans for the Viet Cong suicide attack on Tan Son Nhut Airport last Dec. 4, typewriters, medical supplies, officers' sidearms and even a small cemetery...
...concrete bunkers just 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the Iron Triangle also conceals scores of Viet Cong military base camps, supply depots and field hospitals, all connected by miles of underground tunnels. Intelligence reports indicated that it was the headquarters of the Viet Cong's Fourth Military Region, which commands Communist activities in and around Saigon and had placed practically all hamlets in the area under Communist control. The U.S. has bombed the place repeatedly in the past 18 months but the only previous venture of U.S. troops into the area in force was frustrated when the Viet Cong...
...reactionary Thailand government clique." After all, about a third of the guerrillas who are operating in its northeast are Vietnamese who have slipped across the Mekong River from Communist redoubts in Laos to join Chinese-trained Thais and some members of the Pathet Lao in spreading terror through the region...
Nigeria's present crisis is rooted in tribal tensions which have been maturing for decades. The most violent antagonism is between the progressive Ibos, who dominate Nigeria's Eastern Region, and the less-educated Hausas, a Moslem people from the vast and largely arid Northern Region. After World War II, the Ibos, whose Eastern home is badly overpopulated, migrated north in droves to take advantage of the opportunities offered by their underdeveloped and underpopulated neighbor. The Ibos soon dominated major northern industries and captured crucial transportation and communications jobs. The Hausas, frustrated by their inability to complete with the "foreigners...
...years, the central government managed to keep the lid on these divisive forces. Then, last October, the bubble burst. In the North, rioting Hausas slaughtered 3000 Ibos and injured 10,000 more. The Eastern Region accepted the more than one million refugees who fled the North in the wake of the rioting and then closed its doors, cutting off communications with its Nigerian neighbors. Ojukwu declared that unless the federal government compensated the displaced Ibos for death of relatives, property damage, and injury, the East would secede from the Nigerian federation. During November, he refused to attend a constitutional conference...