Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Military sources reported yesterday that 3000 American-trained Laotian hill tribesmen, led by agents of the Central Intelligence Agency, have moved into the Ho Chi Minh trail complex in Laos...
...latest supply stocks and facilities discovered along the Ho Chi Minh trail included an insurgent training center of 400 small houses, large quantities of ammunition and rice, and 400 bicycles...
Traffic down the trail always increases after the monsoon season ends in September or October. It reaches a peak from February to April, the last months when supplies can leave the north and still reach their destination before rains again make the roads impassable in May. This year the trail's cargo has become more vital than ever to the Communists. Since last March, they have been denied the use of the Cambodian port of Kompong Som, where some 75% of the war material for all of South Viet Nam used to be shipped by sea. Thus, except...
...that antlike flow, the U.S. has committed more than half of its air-power in Indochina to missions over the trail-about 380 sorties on an average day during the dry season. The raids are conducted by fighter-bombers, C-119 and C-130 gunships and giant B-52 Stratofortresses. Often they must dodge fire from some 3,000 artillery emplacements scattered along the trail. In addition to pilot reconnaissance, the Air Force is relying increasingly on an arsenal of electronic gadgetry developed to see and hear through darkness and vegetation. Two gadgets that have recently come to public attention...
...only way to eliminate traffic completely on the trail, military authorities argue, is to cut it on the ground. That, of course, may well be the ultimate goal of Operation Dewey Canyon II. The very fact that a ground operation, with all the risks it involves, is deemed desirable by military experts is a tribute to the Communists' herculean effort to keep the trail open as well as an admission that even the most modern airpower has its limits...