Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms the Viet Minh decided to offer. But at the Geneva truce negotiations the Viet Minh delegation made concessions to France and the West that were surprisingly great, considering their advantageous military position. Although the Viet Minh had originally demanded the 11th parallel as provisional dividing line between the zone of French occupation and that of Viet Minh control, its forces retreated to a compromise at the 17th parallel. And although they had called for an agreement insuring general elections after six months, they finally accepted a two-year interim...
...Parliament'' and "Cabinet," and given a new assignment: control of the "military zone" of Algiers...
...only way to avoid bothering the neighbors with other jet noises is to make sure that an airport authority buys enough land for a buffer zone around its property...
Three of the four patients who were treated are progressing satisfactorily, but more time will be needed before a precise evaluation of the results can be made. The fourth patient, a two-year-old girl, died; but her death was due to a recurrent tumor outside the irradiated zone. However, the accuracy of the Cyclotron does reduce the danger of damaging healthy cells and organs outside the target area...
...victory in South Viet Nam. Before going to Hawaii for the meeting, McNamara made a major policy speech in which he declared that the U.S. is determined to resist when ever the Communists wage such "wars of liberation," in which "the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action" and the tactics are those of "the sniper, the ambush and the raid, terror, extortion and assassination." These tactics will be countered, he said, not with massive forces and nuclear weapons, but "with companies and squads and individual soldiers...