Word: fishhooks
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...Fishhook area of Cambodia, U. S. Air Force bombers yesterday destroyed part of Mimot, a rubber plantation town, after North Vietnamese troops reportedly fired on U. S. Army helicopters...
...11th Armored Cavalry Regiment yesterday burned at least five 30-40-hut villages in another part of the Fishhook. Officers explained that the villages were burned because they could be of use to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese...
Pointing ??? map, Nixon said that the new operation would be aimed at "cleaning out" Communist sanctuaries on the "Fishhook" corridor, which extends along the border about 70 miles northwest of Saigon. The primary target is the headquarters of the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), the Communist base directing the South Vietnamese war effort...
...this end, they organized mass demonstrations, first in Svay Rieng province, site of the Fishhook sanctuary, then three days later in the capital. Thousands of civil servants, students and soldiers in civilian clothes joined in. Many of the placards they carried had been printed on government presses. The North Vietnamese and N.L.F. embassies were sacked. Though the demonstrations were sparked by the army, there was enough spontaneous participation to indicate a high level of popular hatred for the North Vietnamese. It was then that the anti-Sihanouk forces seriously began to consider ousting the prince...
...moment. "Hooked with a wood into the forest, it will lead you well beyond the pier," states one clue. Does it refer to the golf course owned by Hind's friend Ashley Sill, where one may hook the ball into the trees? Or does it mean the huge fishhook stuck in the ironwood outside the Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken? Or does it refer to his friends Dewey Wood and de Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants or trees: Maddy Beecher, Oliver Plane, Ivy Bowles, Lief Lund. John Plante, Cassia Meaning...