Word: tri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neutral observers, its 42 local offices throughout South Viet Nam and its fleet of black-and-silver planes, has managed to complete investigations and file final reports on only six truce violations. At week's end, two helicopters carrying eleven ICCS members were reported missing in Northern Quang Tri province; one of the choppers was believed to have been hit by ground fire...
...Crimson fell to perennially tough Penn State and Navy last Saturday by 28 strokes in a tri-meet at Annapolis. Top Crimson golfer Art Burke shot a disappointing 87 while former number two man Quin Smith failed to qualify...
...tempting, reading Pogue's rich book, to speculate on how Marshall would have survived the democratic strains of another era - especially the bitter national divisions of the recent past. If he would not let one American die for Rhodes, could he have kept one from dying for Quang Tri or An Loc? The questions are unanswerable, though they reach toward one of the crucial is sues of Viet Nam - the extent to which a democracy can wage a war not supported by the national will, and the extent to which such a will can be manipulated. In any case...
Both Vietnamese sides launched a numbers campaign, charging massive violations of the cease-fire by the other. The Communists claimed Saigon forces had committed 24,000 violations and had lobbed precisely 12,523 shells in Quang Tri Province. Saigon claimed 5,540 Communist violations since the agreement was signed. More seriously, the State Department revealed U.S. intelligence estimates of a new Communist troop build-up along the Laotian border, including the southward movement of tanks, and the setting up of SA-2 antiaircraft batteries at Khe Sanh...
...outburst of emotion demonstrated anew how difficult it will be to establish effective supervision of the ceasefire. A field team of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision also ran into an unexpected problem: it could not even get into Quang Tri city, south of the DMZ, because that town was under a heavy North Vietnamese artillery barrage. Two full weeks after the signing of the settlement there still was no effective truce inspection anywhere in the country...