Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies into the South. The South Vietnamese have yet to cut any of the large, all-weather routes that run farther to the west; sidestepping the invasion, Communist traffic has largely moved to these roads. But even that inconvenience has slowed transport. "The stuff is backing up along the trail," says a Pentagon officer, and the flow will be choked off even more effectively if ARVN can advance to Muong Phine, a central transshipment point...
When the allies invaded Cambodia last spring, exuberant South Vietnamese units thrust 24 miles into the Parrot's Beak area in the very first day. Last week, 14 days after the first ARVN troops pushed across the Laotian border to strike at the Ho Chi Minh Trail network, they had covered only some 15 miles and were coming under increasingly intense enemy pressure. U.S. commanders insisted that Operation Lam Son 719, despite its slow pace, was scoring military gains. But Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned President Nixon that the 17,000 ARVN troops and the 9,000 Americans...
Backing Up. Increasingly, however, it was enemy resistance that blocked faster movement. North Viet Nam moved two divisions out of areas south of the DMZ and into the Laotian panhandle, bringing total Communist troop strength along the trail to 30,000. Company-size units engaged the South Vietnamese in more than a dozen battles, usually night-time rocket and mortar attacks on lonely ARVN fire bases. In the heaviest fighting of the campaign, the Communists reportedly overran one base and cut off at least two others. South Vietnamese casualties officially rose to 147 dead and were probably much higher; Communist...
...interview yesterday General Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, said that the invasion had a limited objective, the destruction of enemy stockpiles. He denied that it was ever intended to seal off the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Captain Pat Coleman and Collin Mangrum lifted the Harvard varsity wrestling team to a 19-15 victory over Yale last night in New Haven to all but clinch a ? for second place in the Ivy League. Both Yale and the Crimson now hold 4-4 Leagne records and trail defending champion Princeton which stands 5-0. The Bulldogs meet the Tigers on Saturday but are given almost no chance of an upset. while Harvard entertains fourth place Pennsylvania...