Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to South Vietnamese chief spokesman Col. Tran Van An, government forces accomplished 80 to 90 percent of their objectives. South Vietnamese and American officials have said their objectives were to disrupt North Vietnamese traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail and destroy NLF supply dumps...
...intelligence sources, however, say that the North Vietnamese are repairing South Vietnamese cuts in the trail and are rebuilding at Sepone, a major supply area 25 miles from the South Vietnamese border...
...North Vietnamese responded to the attacks over a wide area. Some 80 miles south of Tchepone, Communist forces overran a Royal Laotian garrison at the edge of the Bolovens Plateau, overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The base, known as Site 22, commanded the SeKong River, a key artery in the trail complex. Near Tchepone itself, North Vietnamese troops managed to call in American artillery on South Vietnamese positions by using the same radio frequencies as the ARVN troops'. At other times they lured American helicopters into antiaircraft fire. Total helicopter losses since the Laos operation began five weeks...
Dispiriting Rationale. After a month of fighting, what had the South Vietnamese accomplished in Laos? For a brief period they managed to cut traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in half. By last week, truck movements were returning to normal, though most of the supplies were going to nearby Communist troops in Laos, instead of to enemy forces in Cambodia and South Viet Nam. The ARVN also counted 1,731 tons of food captured or destroyed, along with weapons for as many as nine battalions, 800 tons of ammunition, 108 tanks and 8,008 enemy killed in action...
Still, in the epoch of the X-rated film, children's fare is rare indeed. The youthful viewer and his parents should overlook Phantom Tollbooth's flaws and concentrate on the film's underlying moral. Discovery and delight do not come at the end of the trail, but along the way. The going is the goal. · Stefan Kanfer