Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neutralization and partition of the kingdom of Laos stipulated by the Geneva Accords of 1962 has served Hanoi's war against South Viet Nam admirably. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the Communist-controlled portion of Laos have flowed the men and supplies enabling North Viet Nam to keep the war going, and Laotian rice has helped keep Ho's warriors fed. The U.S. regularly bombs the Trail to slow the flow. But unlike Hanoi, Washington has been unwilling to violate the ban on foreign troops in Laos and strike directly overland to interdict the enemy traffic...
Since Oct. 15, Red trucks have been streaming southward in bumper-to-bumper convoys. The Trail has been expanded in many stretches into a two-lane highway that is artfully camouflaged and heavily defended by dug-in and mobile antiaircraft batteries. So serious is the increase in traffic that the U.S. is now bombing more in Laos than in North Viet Nam. In December the U.S. flew 6,722 combat sorties over Laos, hitting fuel dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through...
...affiliates-almost double the number of card-carrying troopers three years ago. Between propaganda drumbeats, the recruits practice marching with rock-filled rucksacks to ready them for the 73-lb. burden of gear and ammunition each must carry for as long as six months down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Banjo-and-songfests brighten recruit training, and each squad gets a regular issue of a deck of cards-with the stern warning that it is not to be used for gambling...
Television, that relentless blazer of old trails, opened some fresh territory for a change last week. On NBC, retired Astronaut John Glenn, 46, premiered his Great Explorations series with "The Trail of Stanley and Livingstone." And on ABC, The Undersea World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau cycle was launched with "Sharks...
...their teeth with beer rather than risk the water. Humphrey handed out tickets to the U.S. Senate gallery to Liberian youngsters and implied in Kinshasa that he would seek a second vice-presidential term, promising Congolese President Joseph D. Mobutu to wear a leopard-skin cap on the campaign trail...