Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Still, U.S. officers have nothing but praise for units like the ARVN 9th Division, which has been tracking down Communists and picking up new confidence in Cambodia's southern reaches. "Cambodia has been a bonanza for ARVN," says Major General Hal D. McCowan, top U.S. adviser in the Delta region. "Nothing helps like kicking the hell out of the other...
...opened the twelfth and 13th fronts of the border campaign. Northwest of Saigon, 5,000 ARVN troops on Operation Pacify West III rode tanks and helicopters into a North Vietnamese base opposite the Central Highlands. Far to the south, another 10,000 ARVN soldiers headed into Cambodia's delta region in "Operation Nine Dragons," so named because it is there that the brown Mekong splits into nine branches...
...bill, Saigon figures it will cost the Vietnamese taxpayer 50 cents a day to supply each refugee with 50 grams of rice, dried fish and cooking oil, as well as medical assistance. "This is an essential humanitarian operation," said John Paul Vann, chief American pacification adviser in the Delta region. Noting that the refugees seem quite loyal to the Saigon government, Vann added that it "should have fantastically good results for my pacification program." One of the refugees, an old, half-blind widow named Nguyen Thi Mai, put it more simply. "I am very, very happy to go back...
...member of the Administration last week issued a warning that more violence could only lead to adverse reaction. Radicals, Postmaster General Winton Blount told a national convention of Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity, "offer destruction, but no solution. Perhaps the exalting of ignorance is excusable to a point. But finally the combination of ignorance and rebellion is too explosive to tolerate. Our history shows all too clearly in which direction the middle class moves when it is frightened, angry or threatened. It goes to the right, not to the left. The more frightened it becomes, the angrier it gets, the more...
Differing Versions. According to Cairo, Israeli pilots flying U.S.-built Phantom jets bombed a schoolhouse near the Nile Delta, killing 30 pupils ranging in age from six to twelve years. Israel admitted the bombings, but the two sides differed greatly in their accounts of what had happened. The Egyptians escorted foreign newsmen to a hospital to view the dead, as well as 31 wounded children. But they declined to let the reporters see the school, insisting that the road leading to it was impassable. Cairo reported that the two-year-old school, situated in a region known as Bahr...