Word: trail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trail. Demoralized, the Viet Cong drew back. In the morning light, more than 100 Communist dead dangled on the wire, some clutching grenades and belts of unburnt ammunition. They belonged to the battle-hardened 580th and 801st Viet Cong battalions, and the dead carried new, Communist-bloc weapons-tying the guerrillas to outside supplies of ammunition and spare parts-a sure sign of Communist confidence in ultimate victory...
...anti-personnel bomb that explodes 30 yds. above the ground, spewing tiny fléchettes (steel darts) over a block-square area. Among the dead was a young North Vietnamese lieutenant named Ngo. In his diary, he told of the arduous trip down the long Ho Chi Minh trail that began last November. It ended last week on the barbed wire before Kannack. "My life is very hard," he wrote. "There is not enough to eat, and all the time the planes bomb...
After wining, dining, and cavorting at the Pudding, she will retire to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and conduct a press conference about her new film, "Hallelujah Trail," to be released this spring...
Three undefeated Crimson swimmers lead the Harvard varsity onto the post-season tournament trail this afternoon, beginning with the three-day Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Swimming Championships at Yale...
...South Vietnamese farmer. Cam fought against the French, later was transferred to an agricultural camp. Early in 1960 he was back in uniform, this time learning cast-iron production and simple blast furnace design. Then Cam and 35 other metallurgists hit the Ho Chi Minh Trail, set up a secret Viet Cong iron foundry in Kontum province. Cam built kilns and smelted the ore from nearby iron deposits to make grenades and mines. He was captured by Vietnamese Rangers one day while gathering corn...