Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEMILITARIZED ZONE: Far to the North, near the 17th parallel, there is concern as well. By Dec. 15, the 18,500 men of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division will have been withdrawn, leaving the gap to be filled by ARVN's 1st Division. The U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, calls the 1st the equal of any American division in the country. In line with its slogan, "More sweat in training, less blood in combat," it gives each trooper an extra five weeks of special training, and its combat record is excellent. Though it is twice...
...were in control of part of the broad Plain of Jars, so called because of the many funereal jars on the area's tombs. Preceding the offensive was an intensive rain of bombs from Thai-based U.S. planes, which have turned the whole region into a "free-fire zone," where anything that moves is considered fair game. A woman refugee from Mahaxay said the town had emptied so completely because of the bombing that a tiger had taken up residence in the ruins of the main pagoda...
...determine how widespread racial problems really are, Terry spent six months covering U.S. units in the field, traveling from the Demilitarized Zone in the north to Dong Tarn in the Delta. Says Terry, "These travels were often unofficially discouraged. In many places, white officers and sergeants looked on suspiciously as I drank, ate or talked with black Marines, soldiers and sailors in their barracks, mess halls, tanks and foxholes." One black Army sergeant major urged him to tone down his Afro hair style before he met the troops; Terry discovered that the sergeant had ordered his men to cut their...
Chapman claimed that racial problems "are almost unheard of among Marines in combat." He was at least technically correct. Neither Marines nor members of other services have been at one another's throats in the battle lines -survival requires total attention. Outside of the war zone, there has been a disturbing decay in racial relations among U.S. troops. To probe how deeply the new militance runs in the military, TIME Correspondent Wallace Terry spent six months interviewing black troops in Viet Nam. His report...
...plus 45,000 administrative and political cadre (see map following page). Powerful enemy forces remain deployed throughout the country, with the heaviest concentrations in the III Corps area, which contains Saigon. While the enemy maintains strong support forces in its Laotian and Cambodian sanctuaries and north of the Demilitarized Zone, few large units have recently crossed into the South. One of these was the 24th Regiment of the 304th NVA Division, which disappeared into the North after the siege of Khe Sanh was lifted last year. In recent weeks the enemy has ominously deployed troops southward from II Corps...