Word: nhatrang
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...province, army patrols killed six Viet Cong guerrillas, and in similar incidents, South Vietnamese often gathered to stare curiously at the dead guerrillas. In the coastal jungles of Phu Yen province, the Viet Cong ambushed and wiped out 40 civil guards. A rickety train chugging up from Saigon to Nhatrang was derailed; in the confusion seven government soldiers vanished, either captured by the Viet Cong or deserting to them. Day after day, the war-formless, ferocious, without front lines-grew in intensity...
Already U.S. military advisers in Viet Nam have trained 6,500 native troops in the new, mobile Ranger tactics designed to out-guerrilla the guerrillas. At Nhatrang eight new Ranger companies are learning the tricks: scaling cliffs, making wild leaps on cable pulleys, walking noiselessly in jungle undergrowth, learning how to kill swiftly. It is no secret that the Ho Chi Minh Trail is now a two-way street, for the South Vietnamese now use it to travel north, and Ranger patrols are probing into North Viet Nam to give Ho a taste of his own medicine...