Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offensive began in the sky-with a shattering barrage of at least 12,000 rounds of rocket, mortar and artillery fire across the Demilitarized Zone, which divides North and South Viet Nam. Said Specialist Fourth Class Michael Hill, a U.S. adviser with ARVN units in the area: "It was like nothing we ever expected and nothing we ever saw." Then came the ground attack. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops, with Russian-built tanks and artillery, swept down through Quang Tri province, sending 50,000 refugees fleeing south and U.S. advisers scurrying to their helicopters. As his stunned military forces...
...U.S.S. Buchanan, a guided missile destroyer, rolls gently in the waters of the Tonkin Gulf, 5,000 yards offshore of the Demilitarized Zone. Overhead, a full moon slips in and out of wispy tangles of cloud. Crew members who are not needed to fire the guns or run the ship are down in the mess deck watching Jane Fonda in Barbarella...
...turned the conversation back to the varsity and asked him about what had happened to his pre-season strategy to use a good deal of zone and man-to-man pressing. Again he replied pointedly...
...because they are unable to till land while they are in the army. Landlords complain that government compensation is slow. Ultimate success depends on the ability of the Saigon government to provide military security; a test of that ability loomed last week, as North Vietnamese forces around the Demilitarized Zone and in the central highlands launched a series of attacks that could be the prelude to the long-awaited Communist offensive...
...moving from base to base. She adored her father, who treated her like a boy, made her learn to ride almost as soon as she could walk. "Every morning at 5:30, the goddam horses were at the back door," she recalls of a stay in the Panama Canal Zone. She was on a raft there once, swimming with her father, when a "goddam crocodile was skulking under the raft." He ordered her to swim for shore anyway...