Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel pellets. In no other war has American weaponry so quickly matched the demands of a difficult tactical terrain. From the swamps of the Mekong Delta, where 30-ft. patrol boats packed with unsinkable plastic foam whisk along on water jets, to the shell-pocked "Rockpile" below the Demilitarized Zone, where six-barreled Ontos tracked vehicles rumble, the arsenal last week was in awesome action...
...South Viet Nam. Assigned to the 1st Division, Quealy - against the advice of senior officers at field headquarters in Dau Tieng - insisted on boarding a helicopter of medics and troop reinforcements flying to the relief of the Big Red One's 1st Battalion, under attack in War Zone C northwest of Saigon (see THE WORLD). Landing at the battle site, Father Quealy hurriedly gave last rites to dying soldiers from a platoon of B Company. Just then, a Viet Cong soldier stepped out from the brush, fired at the chaplain with a machine gun. Within moments, Quealy was dead...
...Seoul's City Hall Plaza, the President was revivified by the sight of people massed as far as he could see. "To an American," he declared, "the free soil of Korea is hallowed ground." Lunching with American servicemen just 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone the next day, he lauded them in grisly language as "the boys that are willing to go and die and leave their arms and legs and their eyes all over the world. Except for you and your brothers who came here ahead of you, Korea would now be under the master...
...major monsoon offensive in the Central Highlands last summer were aborted by such U.S. spoiling operations as Paul Revere and Hawthorne. Operation El Paso broke up an attempted Communist onslaught along the central coast. Most recently, Hanoi began massing for an invasion straight south across the demilitarized zone: some 8,800 U.S. Marines and four battalions of South Vietnamese troops are now in place to prevent it. Hanoi covets a victory over some isolated American unit for its psychological and propaganda value, but this hope has proved elusive. Already this year, the Communists have suffered 48,000 men killed...
...compensate him for the added costs of a wife, a child, a dependent parent, or unpleasant working conditions. Italians are paid $8.40 a month extra for each child, also collect supplements if they work at an open-hearth furnace, at a high altitude, or in an old malarial zone, though malaria has seldom struck since Mussolirii drained the swamps. The Belgians get extras to cover the cost of commuting by train, and the hardy Dutch, who cycle to work, are given "bike money...