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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still continuing, Operation Hawthorne has thus far killed some 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars in a spoiling operation designed to throw off balance any enemy monsoon offensive plans. All up and down South Viet Nam, the U.S. has been out hunting in a record number of battalion-size or larger operations (25 last week). Significantly they are making contact, after nearly eight months in which North Vietnamese General Giap's forces and the Viet Cong were notably reluctant to fight. Yet another sign of the quickening war: Giap has moved two fresh regiments from staging areas in Laos into...
...have to be razed. Buses at the city depot were piled one atop the other like crushed ants. At the airport, 15 light planes lay scattered, stamped flat. Though the state capital lay outside the storm's path, the pressure shattered windows and smashed a hole the size of a locomotive in the dome. Total damage: at least $100 million...
...APCs churn forward once more. In their wake comes a line of bulldozers. They level anything still standing. What was once a good-size jungle becomes a desert piled with brush. Occasionally, there is an enormous explosion as "the tunnel rats," having excavated a Viet Cong burrow, blow it up. When it is all over, only the stench of cordite mingling with Cu Chi's grey dust and the drifting blue smoke of bombs lingers over the desolation. Cu Chi will not soon harbor Viet Cong again, at least...
...Rear. Operation Kahuku, which cleared Cu Chi, was but one of some 60 major Allied search-and-destroy missions in the last 100 days. While the headlines were filled with South Viet Nam's Buddhist-fueled political crisis, the Allies, running an average of 15 battalion-size-or-larger operations each week, have been methodically hunting down the enemy. From north of Hue to south of Saigon, from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands to Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, spearheaded by the armor and artillery and airpower of the U.S., the Allies have been hitting...
...largest Chinese colony in the New World was established. To embellish it, Avery Brundage, 78, president of both the U.S. and more recently the international Olympic committee and millionaire builder as well, last week opened a new wing containing his collection of Oriental art, which doubles the size of the M. H. de Young Museum...