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Word: regroups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflict the kind of destruction caused by raids over population centers. Nor did it cause the Khmer insurgents to surrender. Only in the few days immediately prior to the bombing halt did the insurgents fall back - about ten miles from Phnom-Penh - and then it was probably to regroup. Insurgents now control 80% of Cambodia and many of the roads leading to its capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: The Fighting Finally Stops for the U.S. | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...Communist fighting force, composed of North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge and other local groups, has sharply improved. The U.S. expected that the bombing that it resumed on Feb. 9 would force the Communists to interrupt their offensive by mid-March in order to regroup. Instead they showed greater tactical flexibility than ever, cutting off the supply routes almost at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Breaking the Siege | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...French, then the North Vietnamese and finally the Americans have been backing rival factions and educating the Laotians in the ways of combat. They had to be taught to aim their rifles to kill rather than to fire overhead. Opposing armies regularly grouped for great battles, then retreated to regroup for combat some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Settlement in Dreamland | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...weeks as supplies were exhausted and losses from U.S. counteroffensives mounted. Ranking U.S. officials in Saigon expect a similar pattern this time around. In their view, the current fighting will begin to fade in three to four weeks, as the North Vietnamese withdraw to their sanctuaries to regroup and resupply. Despite the onset of the monsoon rains, which are due to begin in most of the country next month, the Communists may well try to renew the fighting in August, in order to influence the U.S. election campaign. "Traditionally," says an American official in Saigon, "their first effort has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Escalation in the Air, Ordeal on the Ground | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...expected and nothing we ever saw." Then came the ground attack. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops, with Russian-built tanks and artillery, swept down through Quang Tri province, sending 50,000 refugees fleeing south and U.S. advisers scurrying to their helicopters. As his stunned military forces struggled to regroup, President Nguyen Van Thieu appeared on TV to deliver a grim ten-minute speech. "This is the final battle to decide the survival of the people," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Vietnamization: A Policy Under the Gun | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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