Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officers were pleasantly startled by the soaring spirits of ARVN units in Cambodia. "It was something," reported an American who watched the ARVN 21st Division roll into Can Tho after three weeks across the border. "They were throwing handfuls of Viet Cong money to the people from their trucks and armored personnel carriers as they came through town. They were sky-high." ARVN armored columns were blithely plunging 50 or more miles into Cambodia. Streaking across the Cambodian flatlands like so many pocket Pattons, they liberated towns and hurtled far beyond the range of their U.S. advisers, artillery and helicopter...
...farmers. Well aware of the issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying a prosperous life. This will open a new era for the nation...