Word: vietcong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Liberation Alliance reaffirmed last night their plans to "turn the teach-in into an anti-war rally" by clapping, heckling, carrying Vietcong flags and other actions." The group as a whole has not voted to clap the speeches down...
...social one as a military one, and the effect of certain military measures may be just the opposite of the effect desired, and may be far from making people love us, even if for the moment, out of fear of being killed, some of them renounce the Vietcong come over to our side...
Shaplen the observer occasionally becomes Shaplen the prophet, and his track record here is mixed. In 1965 he foresees two or three more years of war, just when the government was foreseeing two or three more months of war. In October 1966, he predicts that the only way the Vietcong can win the war is to engage the United States in lengthy negotiations while reducing the level of fighting, this at a time when Washington was refusing to negotiate. But, if his capacity as a prophet is unstable, his capacity as a reporter is unchallenged. Through it all, he documents...
Meanwhile, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces moved closer to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh yesterday, surrounding the town of Tram Khnar, located on the main highway 25 miles south of the capital. They also attacked a key highway junction and blew up a bridge...
...seems that the Administration's efforts in Cambodia are directed not so much at wiping out the Vietcong refuges along the border as toward ensuring the maintenance of a regime in Cambodia that is friendly to American influence. That regime, of course, would have as a primary goal the elimination of Vietcong forces; but its modus vivendi would encompass a larger range of social and economic tendencies which are compatible with the American presence. As in South Vietnam, U.S. strategy in Cambodia amounts to shoring up a military dictatorship that will permit American interests to flourish there...