Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frightful cost in Communist lives. For the first time in the war, the Saigon area felt the tremors of the Russian-made 122-mm. rockets. For the first time, the North Vietnamese used Russian-made SAM missiles to bring down a U.S. fighter-bomber operating over the Demilitarized Zone-an ominous southward extension of their al ready widespread missile network. And for the first time, Communist troops used flamethrowers, made in China, against U.S. troops...
...been emboldened in the search by highly exaggerated reports from their commanders in the South, who often multiply the number of U.S. dead by ten or 15 in order to please their bosses up North. The Communists have massed troops in unusually large numbers in and around the Demilitarized Zone, have directly threatened the provincial capital of Quang Tri and even the ancient Vietnamese capital of Hue 32 miles to the south. In an area where their strength is great, they gambled on a set battle with the U.S. Marines. Last week they came off second best...
...Department of Transportation, which administers the act, is allowing Alaska and Hawaii to stay Standard until it fixes new Pacific time-zone boundaries. More confused are states that are split into two time zones. Indiana has asked D.O.T. to revise the boundaries so that the entire state falls in the Central Time zone; meanwhile, eastern Indiana will remain on Eastern Standard and thus keep the same time as the western portion, which is on Central Daylight all year long. Parts of Nebraska and Kansas in the Mountain Time zone will keep Central Daylight while their requests for revised boundaries...
...time when the U.S. was notably accelerating its war effort. It also coincided with a massive North Vietnamese buildup just north of the 17th parallel, though little note was taken .of .that particular fact in the U.S. Yet, with four divisions of North Vietnamese regulars poised across the Demilitarized Zone, State Department officials are openly acknowledging for the first time the strong possibility of a massive, conventional invasion in a desperate attempt by Hanoi to deal the U.S. a shattering reverse...
Zeno tells the grim story of a single pathfinder platoon in that battle. Heartened at first because they encounter almost no enemy opposition when they land in their drop zone, the 50-odd men in the platoon soon discover that they are in fact hopelessly trapped. After a few days of unrelieved agony, death becomes relatively unimportant. What matters more is how it will come. Using prose as direct and brutal as a trench knife to the gut, and with utter fidelity to military fact, the author meticulously ticks off the manner in which each man dies. The Cauldron...