Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's reasoning was that North Viet Nam had already moved extensive military supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the past three months. Perhaps now, with the rainy season due to begin before very long, the North Vietnamese might be prepared to settle some of the disputed points that were not resolved by the Paris agreement. At week's end Hanoi raised some doubts about whether the Kissinger-Tho meeting would be held at all, apparently in an effort to pressure the U.S. into resuming the clearing of mines in North Vietnamese waters. But, with preliminary...
...week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...
...South Viet Nam, meanwhile, the war that had supposedly ended was still going on. The North Vietnamese continue to pour in men and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and they have as much firepower in the South as they did when they launched last spring's offensive. Every day they blow up bridges, lob hand grenades and pepper various government-held positions with small-arms fire...
...single damning fault, it would be that the situations are not open-ended enough. Once we learn the circumstances, we know everything. There is character revelation, but no character development. Curiously enough, this means that the endings themselves are too open--that is, the plays tend to trail off rather than ending definitively. When Mrozek does try to create a real ending, as in Repeat Performance, he tries too hard. He's better at just throwing his characters on stage and then inexplicably plucking them off, the way he does in Striptease. He creates situations rather than plots, and therefore...
...that the Phnom-Penh government be saved from collapse. The danger is that if most of Cambodia should fall to the Communists, the North Vietnamese and their allies would be able to transport military reinforcements to Cambodia by sea, thereby substantially reducing their reliance on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They would be able to 'claim that they were observing the letter of the Viet Nam and Laos cease-fire agreements, even as they built up immense military pressure on South Viet...