Word: vo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the beginning of the North Vietnamese buildup around the Marine base, the U.S. command was convinced that North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, General Vo Nguyen Giap, intended to try to overrun Khe Sanh as he had stormed Dienbienphu 14 years earlier. As he had done against the French garrison, Giap assembled large numbers of his best-trained assault troops around Khe Sanh, together with huge quantities of weaponry...
...enemy combat deaths between Jan. 28 and Feb. 24 is 42,000. Hanoi did not mount a second wave of attacks, and probably would have been unable to do so if it wished. The Saigon government responded to the crisis with more vigor than many thought possible. Though General Vo Nguyen Giap may never have intended to take Khe Sanh, he mounted a convincing siege at considerable expense in casualties, but that bastion is now liberated (see THE WORLD...
...Johnson's offer to de-escalate. Parts of the 304th Division were also pulling away from Khe Sanh, leaving perhaps only 7,000 of the estimated 30,000 Communist troops that once encircled the base. But the U.S. command is convinced that North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap, if he ever intended to attack Khe Sanh, was forced to abandon the idea and the siege because of his losses under relentless allied air bombardment...
Sanh went on special alert to mark an ominous anniversary: the 14th year to the day since General Vo Nguyen Giap's initial assault on the French bastion of Dienbienphu. But the day came and went without any North Vietnamese attempt to celebrate with all-out fireworks...
...credit or no, U.S. or native Vietnamese, cameraman or correspondent, some of the best of the TV crewmen are not bugging out. "It's a good story," explains NBC's Vo Huynh, "something I can't miss. So I've got to be here." Agrees Garrick Utley, NBC correspondent since 1963: "You learn in two weeks or even two days out here what takes two years anywhere else." CBS Cameraman Smith insists that he wants "to go back as soon as I can -this month if the doctors will...