Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week U.S. officials disclosed that 16,000 Red troops had been killed in the first four months of 1966, nearly equal to the 19,000 that were infiltrated down the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam in the same period. Down the trail must also come nearly all the ammunition to supply the Czech and Chinese weapons of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars now in the South. Whether by truck, oxcart, bicycles carrying up to 500 Ibs., elephant or pack, it is an increasingly perilous journey, taking three to four months at times, under daily...
...Viet Nam. Late in 1964, Giap apparently decided that the time had come for Phase 3-an escalation of the conflict into conventional war, attacking in large numbers for the kill. In preparation, he began to move the first North Vietnamese regular army units down the Ho Chi Minh trail to reinforce the Viet Cong soldiery...
...Viet Cong of the South, there are other problems. One of the biggest is the presence of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars that Giap has sent down the Ho Chi Minh trail in the past year. Regional distrust and dislike between northerners and southerners in Viet Nam is centuries old, and, says one expert in Saigon, "the southern Viet Cong have long been afraid of a Red Napoleon." They now have one: half the main-force Viet Cong units not tied down to static defense are led by North Viet Nam officers, and there have been major seedings...
...rice stored at the next two stations." And once Giap's men arrive, he must keep them supplied by the same tortuous, 800-mile route. Every pair of 81-mm. mortar rounds fired by Giap's men in the South represents a three-month hike down the trail...
...success to an old friend from the Polish army, offered to let him share the profits. It was not long before the new partner and his brother-in-law were carrying bundles of the phony bills to the post office and exchanging them for 5% treasury bonds. On the trail at last, the police tailed the pair to Bojarsky's modest home in Paris, found nothing in searching it until one cop tripped on the carpet, flipping the hidden switch that opened a secret trap door. There it all was-Bojarsky's carefully constructed pulp vats and printing...