Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traction for Trucks. This assures the Communists of access to the Mekong and, most important, provides security for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Although ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops, with U.S. air support, inflicted considerable damage during the Lam Son 719 thrust into Laos and made parts of the trail unusable, the Communists reacted by simply moving the key supply network westward and widening it in the bargain. Thus, in recent weeks, Communist activity along the trail has been running at twice the normal rate. U.S. aerial reconnaissance has revealed piles of bamboo and mounds...
...improve security for the trail, the Communists last month pushed the Laotian army completely off the strategic Bolovens Plateau, deep in southern Laos. Possession of the plateau not only gives the NVA control of the heights overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but also of a landscape so wild that a full division can assemble there without being spotted from the air. Seeking to further improve their supply network, the Communists continue to battle along Route...
...name is Phil Richards, and I'm your Gray Line tour guide for today as we take a three-hour trip along historic Freedom Trail and then through Cambridge with its rich cultural heritage...
...American-sponsored invasion of Laos last February was ostensibly directed at cutting off the main supply route from North to South Vietnam-the Ho Chi Minh Trail. For years before the invasion the United States had engaged in extensive bombing of the trail; enough bombs have been dropped on it to have rendered the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System impassable, yet the trail has survived...
What is it that makes the Ho Chi Minh Trail so durable? Is it the superior quality of North Vietnamese tarmac? The answer is much simpler-there is no Ho Chi Minh Trail. The name itself was invented by Americans. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is not a trail, but rather an area not under American control; and that area is called Laos...