Word: troms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been thousands of cease-fire violations, but only a few hundred "observations" by the ICC and virtually no unanimous decisions on which side was at fault. Of more than 40 formal cease-fire protests made by the South Vietnamese so far, only two have been investigated. In Giong Trom in the Mekong Delta, ICC delegates spent weeks trying to persuade the South Vietnamese district chief not to fire his artillery over their encampment. He finally moved his pieces, but persisted in firing into Viet Cong territory in violation of the ceasefire...
...marketplace in Giong Trom, an old woman complained that her nearby village was "no longer quiet." Did she mean that the Viet Cong came from time to time? "Not because they come from time to time," she replied, "but because they're there right now -all the time...