Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enter Saigon al most at will and control scores of villages in the province of Gia Dinh, which completely surrounds the city. Enemy troops and equipment move freely into the Saigon area along infiltration trails from the Mekong Delta to the south and by motorized sampan along the Saigon River from the north. Eight Viet Cong battalions operate within a radius of 25 miles of the capital, extorting food, supplies and money from fright ened merchants and others among greater Saigon's 2,200,000 population...
Sealed Off. The destruction of Ben Sue, a Saigon River village complex that supported the Viet Cong, was typical. It took only a minute and a half for 60 helicopters to descend on the village with a battalion of the U.S. 1st Division. While loudspeakers warned residents to stay in their homes, infantrymen quickly sealed off the town, catching many of its Viet Cong defenders by surprise. The villagers were assembled and the men between 15 and 45 led off for questioning. Within three days, Ben Sue was deserted, its people and their possessions loaded aboard boats and shipped twelve...
...Thailand." Thailand turned a deaf ear to Hanoi's raucous denunciation of this "new and odious act of treason by the 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...
...built Mohave Power Project in Clark County, Nev., 80 miles from Las Vegas. Being built by three Southwestern utility companies headed by Southern California Edison, the $188 million electrical-power plant will have two 750,000-kw. generators on 2,500 acres of Colorado River land. Power from the plant, along with that from a similar project already under construction in western New Mexico, will light up the lamps of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and the proliferating lower two-thirds of California...
...series of special, two-hour TV-movies being filmed by Universal Pictures, NBC was in gleeful possession of at least the No. 2 and 4 ratings among all the movies shown this season-topped only by ABC's incredibly popular rerun of a movie-movie, Bridge on the River Kwai. With five more such originals to follow-at a cost of $750,000 to $1,000,000 apiece-NBC is all but assured of the only conspicuous new success of the year...