Word: underground
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Having already uncovered and blasted more than 500 Viet Cong tunnels in the Iron Triangle, U.S. soldiers last week snared the biggest nest of all: a vast underground city in Ho Bo woods on the triangle's western flank that almost surely housed the headquarters of the Viet Cong's Fourth Military Region, which includes Saigon. Heavily booby-trapped, it contained French and U.S. maps, diagrams of the hotels and billets that house Americans in Saigon, detailed plans for the Viet Cong suicide attack on Tan Son Nhut Airport last Dec. 4, typewriters, medical supplies, officers' sidearms...
Composed of jungle, paddyfields and a network of concrete bunkers just 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the Iron Triangle also conceals scores of Viet Cong military base camps, supply depots and field hospitals, all connected by miles of underground tunnels. Intelligence reports indicated that it was the headquarters of the Viet Cong's Fourth Military Region, which commands Communist activities in and around Saigon and had placed practically all hamlets in the area under Communist control. The U.S. has bombed the place repeatedly in the past 18 months but the only previous venture of U.S. troops into the area...
...that end, they brought in 60 bulldozers to clear wide swatches of the jungle that served the Communists as cover. They confiscated tons of food and equipment, overran and demolished scores of V.C. installations, ranging from an underground hospital to a regimental base camp. They also decided upon a more drastic step: to raze all hamlets in the area, resettling the 8,000 or more inhabitants elsewhere, where the V.C. could no longer rely on them for information, food and shelter. The removal of the villagers will also make future identification easier: henceforth, anyone found there is almost bound...
...Repatriation, a smaller terrorist group, complained that when some of their men voluntarily surrendered to Hussein's Arab Legion after returning from a raid on Israel they were "clapped in jail and cruelly tortured." In announcing his decision last week to take the Palestine Liberation Organization underground, Chairman Ahmed Shukairy declared that for the moment "the primary struggle is against the tyrant of Amman, Hussein, who has betrayed God, the Prophet, and the Palestine cause." The Israelis, however, can draw small comfort from the Arab feuds. What Shukairy and his supporters in Cairo and Damascus want...
There is a place for this sort of thing, and it is definitely underground. Like in a sewer...