Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there...
...this episode that finally prompted Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to go all out in retaliation. No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge of the campaign. Characteristically, Giap planned slowly; he devoted a full two months to studying the terrain and the situation...
Last month he called on his soldiers to "firmly defend our independence, sovereignty and territory, including our frontiers, offshore islands, waters, continental shelf and air space"-and sent 60,000 troops into the Parrot's Beak. This was the largest force that Viet Nam had put into the field since the two-week battle for Xuan Loc in April 1975, which sealed the doom of Saigon...
...Parrot's Beak, Giap's troops were traveling in the area where American forces had invaded Cambodia to cut Viet Cong supply lines from the north. Route 1, the highway that Giap's soldiers used for their forays into Cambodia, was the same road along which Richard Nixon had sent U.S. troops in the eight-week U.S. invasion. It was also the route that the battle-tough North Vietnamese 9th Division, one of the units deployed last week, had traveled to enter Saigon...
...Vietnamese seemed unlikely to move on to the Cambodian capital. Such a move could possibly invite the reluctant intervention of the Communist superpowers. Moscow has supported North Viet Nam since the earliest days of the war with the South, aiding Hanoi with loans for food and economic development. Peking, too, has given economic aid to Hanoi, if only to maintain a competitive position there with Moscow. At the same time, China, despite its distaste for Pol Pot's more-Marxist-than-thou zealotry, has continued to support Cambodia, where the Soviet Union has no leverage...