Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real battle-and the most precipitous retreat-involved the elite 1st ARVN Division. They had been assigned to man fire bases named Sophia, Lolo, Liz and A Luoi, and Landing Zone Brown, all overlooking the invasion route on Highway 9. All were abandoned after undergoing continued shelling and massed attacks by the North Vietnamese. The ARVN troops destroyed their own artillery and fought their way through the jungle until helicopters could reach them (see following story...
Crowded Helicopters. One of the 1st Division's three regiments-the 3rd-returned with only 450 of its original 2,000 men still in fighting condition. For those troops at least, the orderly retreat had become a rout. Choppers that ordinarily accommodate eight men carried 14, some clinging precariously to the helicopter skids. Several lost their holds in mid-air and fell to death; others seemed barely able to hobble, apparently suffering from their days of marching through Laos' jungled mountains. One unconscious soldier had one arm wrapped around a machine-gun mount, while his comrades held...
...measures, urging that states be given a deadline to adopt no-fault insurance or face imposition of a federal plan. He was overruled by the White House after Presidential Aide Peter Flanigan listened to objections from insurance industry groups against federal insurance standards. "The department was forced not to retreat but into a near rout," complained Richard J. Barber, a former Deputy Assistant Transportation Secretary. Barber, who resigned late last year, directed the 2½-year, $2,000,000 study that was supposed to form the basis for the Administration's recommendations. Barber called the Administration's proposals...
...truth appears to be that the South Vietnamese disrupted the supply routes for as long as the North Vietnamese allowed them to do so, and no longer. Once the North Vietnamese counterattacks began in earnest this month, the Saigon troops were quickly forced to retreat to the relative safety of South Vietnam. Even Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird had to admit Wednesday that the South Vietnamese had been forced to cut short their invasion because of North Vietnamese resistance, which he curiously described as "vicious and violent...
...South Vietnamese retreat from Laos continued yesterday, it was discovered that 53 American soldiers Saturday refused to recover abandoned equipment in an area under heavy bombardment...