Word: trying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment I know of four men who've been arrested although the teletype tells us that there probably have been upwards of thirty-five arrests. Among these four, we met and talked with two of them. Thich Tri Quang, the militant Buddhist leader, perhaps one of the most important of the Buddhist leaders in South Vietnam, has been arrested. We saw him just before the attacks; we saw one of his colleagues, Thich Tinh Minh, just after the attacks...
During the attacks themselves the South Vietnamese government announced that An Quang pagoda where Thich Tri Quang had been living just on the outskirts of Cholon was being used as a command post by the V.C. Thich Tinh Minh said it's absolutely absurd...
Whether the NVA masses will ever at tack Khe Sanh became a matter of growing doubt and deepening divisions. Some ranking officers wondered if the enemy buildup there was only a diversion for the urban offensive further south or for a bypass thrust at Quang Tri or Danang. There was also a dawning realization that, for all President Johnson's warning against another Dienbienphu, Khe Sanh could be overrun by overwhelming human-wave attacks. A top U.S. general in Saigon reckoned that the base could be taken by 25,000 men in concerted assaults, "but a hell...
Barring last-minute hitches, American Airlines this week expects to sign a $750 million contract for some 30 to 35 McDonnell Douglas tri-jet DC-10s. Like Lockheed's airbus contender, the Douglas plane was devised to enable the airlines to fly travelers in economy-size flocks. With traffic growing at a steady 14% a year, the carriers consider air buses their best hope of avoiding menacing traffic jams in the skies between major U.S. cities in the '70s. Though primarily developed for hauls of 250 to 1,000 miles, the DC-10 will be capable of flying...
...line, the barrier that U.S. forces have sought to string from the sea below the DMZ to the Laotian border. It now blocks off the easiest supply line that Giap has into South Viet Nam. By taking Khe Sanh, the Communists would outflank all the allied forces in Quang Tri province and part of Thua Thien province as well, probably forcing a fallback to a new defense line?perhaps as far back at Hué. As Giap well knows, Khe Sanh has become almost as vital symbolically as it is militarily; a Communist victory there would have immense propaganda and psychological...