Word: valleys
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...places remain in South Viet Nam where Communist forces enjoy anything like a sanctuary and can operate with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
...valley of A Shau lies south of Khe Sanh on the Laos border, 30 miles southwest of Hue-only a night's march beyond the protective jungle for an enemy force aiming to launch a surprise attack on the ancient capital of Viet Nam. After seizing the valley in March 1966, the North Vietnamese brought in artillery, antiaircraft guns and tons of supplies, built bunkers and fortifications all the way in from the Laotian border...
...least some of the North Vietnamese troops that abandoned the siege of Khe Sanh are believed to have filtered down into A Shau, where they have increased the threat to Hue's security. Though the valley has been repeatedly bombed, the U.S. last week turned loose on A Shau the giant B-52s that had helped lift the siege of Khe Sanh. In ten waves averaging six planes each, the eight-engine jets hit the valley with 500 tons of explosives during a 24-hour period and kept coming back throughout the week. They blasted truck parking lots, weapons...
...just ten minutes, on May 31, 1889, a busy mountain-valley Pennsylvania steel town was wiped out, with 2,209 dead. A soaking rain had begun to fall a day earlier, turning the Little Conemaugh River into a spillway. Flooded streets were commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some...
...instance, Rockin' Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging to this study, this instrumental group ranks high in the auteur ratings for their inspired and practically identical rockifications of Red River Valley, Jimmy Crack Corn, and Reveille...