Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dubin, a registered Democrat, ran as an independent in order to oppose Podell. The election was widely heralded as a test of public sentiment on the war in Vietnam...
...involvement in the Vietnam war was mentioned only in passing. Interviewer Edward Saphier said "there were brief comments about the fact that we had received adverse publicity. I agreed...
...Control Commission's task -- sealing up Cambodia's border with Vietnam--is mammoth by any standards. The Americans have been complaining for four years that Viet Cong and North Vietnamese use Cambodia as a sanctuary, darting out to strike and then skipping back across the border to safety...
...source of allied discontent is plain. The winding 400-mile boundary is, from a Communist point of view, delightfully permeable. At its northern end, opposite Vietnam's central highlands, it runs through deep tropical jungle, uninhabited and immune to air observation. Its southern reaches, along the Mekong River, are under five feet of water during the monsoons...
...Commission was designed not to keep tabs on a guerrilla war but to supervise the implementation of the Geneva accords in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. This it did with reasonable success in the first two years after its creation, mainly monitoring the withdrawal of regular French and Viet Minh troops. In the years since, however, it has proved disastrously limited in size, mobility and deployment...