Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directed at Base Area 354, between the Fishhook and the Parrot's Beak. The area has long been home for one of the most destructive of all Communist units, the crack 95C Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army, which has made life miserable for the allies in War Zone C in Tay Ninh province. Base Area 354 has also served as headquarters for the NVA's 9th Division, which has led every major attack on the Saigon area in recent years and is considered by U.S. officers to be the best of the Communist divisions. Bold Lancer, which...
...peasants are befuddled," a French businessman said in Phnom-Penh last week. "Prince Sihanouk had been increasingly and-Viet Cong. Now he joins with the Viet Cong to kill Cambodians. I strongly doubt that the peasants will support him, even if he were to return to a 'liberated zone' in the country." That appraisal is shared by many observers, Western and Cambodian. If it is accurate, it may mean a considerably longer life for the regime of Premier Lon Nol than seemed possible a short while...
Even as he spoke, U.S. air cavalrymen thrust into Cambodia's Kompong Cham province, located inside a Communist-infested zone called "the Fishhook." Their mission: a strike at the Communist high command hidden in groups of heavy concrete bunkers at several points beyond the border. Farther south, troops of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy...
...emphasize the point, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said at week's end that he would recommend a renewal of the bombing of North Viet Nam should Hanoi respond to the attacks on the Cambodian sanctuaries by sending large numbers of troops across the Demilitarized Zone into South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese claimed that the U.S. had in fact already resumed the bombing; more than 100 American planes, they said, struck north of the DMZ and killed "many civilians, including 20 children." The U.S. replied that the planes were flying "protective reaction" missions, which have been carried...
...South Vietnamese troops opened three new fronts on the Cambodian border yesterday as North Vietnamese attacks below the demilitarized zone raised the threat of a new offensive in South Vietnam...