Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French suggested four or five sites for the talks, including the old Hotel Majestic, which served as the Gestapo's Paris headquarters during World War II. More likely?and more remote?is either the Chateau de Champs on the Marne River or the Chateau de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, both set in wooded parks outside Paris...
Spread out for almost half a mile along the banks of the Ohio River, the twisted pieces of rusted metal look like the junkman's answer to Lady Bird Johnson's beautification campaign. In fact, the giant junkyard is a painstaking attempt by a new federal agency to re-create the "Silver Bridge" that once connected Kanauga, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W. Va., and determine why the bridge collapsed last December, carrying 46 people to their deaths in the river's numbing waters. The ugly jigsaw along the Ohio may have been the most visible effort...
...shelling of Saigon began at 4 a.m. One mortar round hit near the U.S. Embassy, another close to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's residence. Numerous shells landed in the Chinese section, Cholon. But the main enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where Communist forces unsuccessfully attempted to follow up a mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded...
...eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war. The Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village...
They did, crawling from the rubble of the village or popping out of the Songbo River, where some had lain submerged while breathing through bamboo shoots. In all, 95 surrendered, one of the biggest such catches of the war. A body count turned up another 135 dead, bringing the total to 352 in the 76-hour battle. Allied losses were eight killed and 37 wounded. Among the Communist dead were the commander of the North Vietnamese unit-the 8th Battalion-his executive officer and three company commanders. All told for the week in eastern I Corps, the allies killed...