Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North America-Carribean Zone playoffs, the field had narrowed to Mexico, Guatamala, Jamaica and the United States. With two games left, against Mexico and Jamaica, the U.S. could do no worse to win one and tie one to avoid elimination...
...Americans managed to hold a heavily favored Mexican team to a 2-2 deadlock, and beat Jamaica in St. Louis, 2-1, thus guaranteeing them one of the two places allotted to their zone...
...strikes against Hanoi itself, and the destruction of flood-preventing dikes. He could even send U.S. Marines into a hit-and-run attack above the DMZ to divert Hanoi's troops. He considered urging the South Vietnamese to stage a similar raid or to counterattack across the zone...
...Supplying the landing ships for a diversionary hit-and-run strike into North Viet Nam by South Vietnamese troops. This would have to be at a coastal target like Dong Hoi, just north of the Demilitarized Zone. It could bolster ARVN morale and draw some NVA troops back North. But it would require some 10,000 troops and the South cannot readily spare that number. A similar raid could be conducted by ARVN paratroopers, but they hold key defensive positions in the South...
...Giap has been preparing for the battle of Hué ever since his youth. Born into impecunious gentry in An Xa, a small town just north of what is now the Demilitarized Zone, Giap grew up at a time when the fairly stable 30-year relationship between the French and Vietnamese was coming to an end. At 15, he was taking part in a "quit-school movement" in Hanoi. Before he was 30, he was helping Ho Chi Minh organize his revolution from a base in China. Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar...