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	Demilitarized zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cypriot demilitarized zone separates the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from the Republic of Cyprus.
		Vietnam: The demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam was established in April, 1954 as a result of the Geneva Conference ending the war between the Viet Minh and the French.
		In the Star Trek universe, a demilitarized zone was established in 2370, as a boundary between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demilitarized_zone (876 words)

	THE WAR IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES: CHAPTER I Early Developments
		They are bordered on the north by the demilitarized zone, on the south by Quang Nam Province, on the east by the South China Sea, and on the west by the mountainous Laotian frontier.
		Later, responsibility for the area north of the zone was given to the Marine forces out to the range of their artillery, and thereafter, the U.S. Air Force coordinated with the ground troops prior to executing strikes in the area falling within range of the Marine artillery.
		Fired from the demilitarized zone or from North Vietnam, it was the heaviest artillery weapon yet employed by the North Vietnamese.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/northern/nprovinces-ch1.htm (4951 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Vietnamese soldiers hoist their national flag after defeating the French at Dienbienphu, ending nearly a century of French colonial rule.
		The Geneva Conference on Indochina declares a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel, effectively partitioning Vietnam into the Communist North and the South.
		More than 20,000 North Vietnamese troops cross the demilitarized zone, forcing the South Vietnamese units into a chaotic retreat.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/saigon/timeline.html (785 words)

	1967, Jan. 3. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		U.S. troops moved into the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam.
		In South Vietnamese elections, Generals Thieu and Ky became president and vice president, securing about 35 percent of the vote.
		The South Vietnamese threatened to pursue Communist troops into Cambodia if they used that country as a base for infiltrating South Vietnam.
	www.bartleby.com /67/4269.html (347 words)

	April
		As North Vietnamese tanks and infantry continue to push the remnants of South Vietnam's 22nd Division and waves of civilian refugees from the Quang Ngai Province, the South Vietnamese Navy begins to evacuate soldiers and civilians by sea from Qui Nhon.
		Initially, the South Vietnamese defenders in each case were almost overwhelmed, particularly in the northernmost provinces where government forces abandoned their positions in Quang Tri and fled south in the face of the enemy onslaught.
		Initially, the South Vietnamese defenders in each case were almost overwhelmed, particularly in the northernmost provinces, where the South Vietnamese abandoned their positions in Quang Tri and fled south in the face of the enemy onslaught.
	vietnamresearch.com /dates/april.html (11459 words)

	Vietnam War After Action Reports
		It was a hundred kilometers south of the demilitarized zone and ten kilometers west of the coast.
		While the division staff of the 1st Vietnamese Army Division was on 100 percent alert at the division compound in the northeast corner of the Hue Citadel, only a skeleton staff of the U.S. Advisory Team of the Vietnamese Army 1st Division was on duty at 1st Division Headquarters in the Citadel.
		On 1 February, the Vietnamese forces initiated offensive operations to clear the enemy from his entrenched positions inside the Citadel, and the marines opened operations to clear their area south of the river with particular attention to securing the landing craft ramp.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /vietnamafteraction.html (1509 words)

	Summary
		The peace talks struggled to move to formal session while the United States held its Presidential election amid suspicions by the Democratic and Republican candidates, and the President himself, that their respective opponents were using the peace process to influence the election.
		North Vietnamese reluctance to negotiate on terms acceptable to Johnson was not the only problem he had to contend with during the period covered in the volume.
		On the latter issue, the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) insisted on a four-sided table to emphasize equality between the parties, while the United States and especially the GVN favored a two-sided arrangement that did not obviously give the NLF equal footing with the GVN.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/vii/22443.htm (2941 words)

	Blurry Travel Travelogue - Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), Vietnam
		The Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) was created in April, 1954 as a result of the Geneva Conference ending the war between the Viet Minh and the French.
		Originally proposed as a temporary demarcation line between the communist controlled north and the "democratic" south, the DMZ became the permanent border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam when the 1956 nationwide elections were cancelled due to the obvious imminent victory of Ho Chi Minh and the Communists.
		In an effort to supply the Viet Cong (South Vietnamese Communists) with troops and armaments, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) created a series of interconnecting roads and trails (approximately 20,000 km in total) popularly known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which extended from North Vietnam to the South.
	www.blurrytravel.com /sea2003/journal/06142003/06142003.html (724 words)

	THE HANOI'S 300,000 MIA'S
		Meanwhile, the losses of their opposite side claimed by North Vietnamese official newspapers - Nhan Dan, of the Communist Party, and Quan Doi Nhan Dan of the NVN military - in the same period were about 2 million South Vietnamese along with some 100,000 Americans killed.
		South Vietnamese and American soldiers sometimes found letters, diaries, ID cards and photographs in the bodies of the Communist soldiers, but more often since 1968, probably because of less inspection before the NVA replacements crossed the Demilitarized Zone.
		In fact, the Vietnamese Communist authorities have known too well about all locations where their comrades were buried, but they do not have anything to do with the unknown remains.
	www.vietquoc.com /0008ART.HTM (1143 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: Chronology of U.S. Vietnam Relations, Timeline
		The Geneva Conference on Indochina declares a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel with the North under Communist rule and the South under the leadership of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
		Vietnamese President Le Duc Anh announces he will visit the United States in October for a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
		Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai welcomed Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Han, who was banned from returning to Vietnam in 1966.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/chronol.htm (2873 words)

	OV-10Bronco.Net - U.S. Navy Broncos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Rung Sat Special Zone, or "Forest of Assassins" as it is frequently called, has been used as a refuge area by pirates and assassins hiding from the authorities.
		There are two River Divisions in the I Corps Tactical Zone; one division stationed near Hue, the old capital of South Vietnam, on the Perfume River; and the other, three miles south of the Demilitarized Zone at Cua Viet patrolling the Cua Viet River.
		As the riverine was continued, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers continued to find transporting supplies and personnel on the rivers a near impossible task and they sought other avenues for transporting their materials and personnel.
	www.ov-10bronco.net /usn-rpf-pressrelease.cfm (1616 words)

	Laos - North Vietnamese Invasion
		The occupation by North Vietnamese security forces in December 1958 of several villages in Xépôn District near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North Vietnam and South Vietnam was an ominous development.
		These operations established a pattern of North Vietnamese forces leading the attack on a strong point, then falling back and letting the Pathet Lao remain in place once resistance to the advance had been broken.
		At the same time, the party outlined a role for the LPP that was supportive of North Vietnam, in addition to the LPP's role as leader of the revolution in Laos.
	countrystudies.us /laos/24.htm (838 words)

	VIETNAMESE BANNER DEBATE: Flag campaign draws Hanoi's wrath
		A group of Vietnamese immigrants in metro Atlanta has joined a national campaign for official recognition of the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam --- a yellow field with three horizontal red stripes.
		The push to recognize the flag of the former government of South Vietnam "is not consistent with the current bilateral relations," said Bach Ngoc Chien, a spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington.
		The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is working with the Vietnamese government on a public education and land mine removal plan in Quang Tri, the province where the demilitarized zone was located.
	www.fva.org /vnflag/atlanta-story.htm (789 words)

	Military.com Content
		The helicopter was a Vietnamese military aircraft and its pilot was Vietnamese.
		Vietnamese police confirmed on Sunday earlier U.S. military reports that the helicopter was carrying 16 people.
		Quang Binh province was the southernmost province of North Vietnam during the war, just north of the former demilitarized zone.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=NL_vietrecover_040801 (524 words)

	Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was established as a dividing line between North and South Vietnam as a result of the First Indochina War.
		During the Second Indochina War (popularly known as the Vietnam War), it became important as the battleground demarcation separating North Vietnamese territory from South Vietnamese territory.
		The Geneva Accords promised elections in 1956 to determine a national government for a united Vietnam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DMZ_(Vietnam) (508 words)

	Quang Tri Falls
		SAIGON (AP) --South Vietnam's first provincial capital was abandoned to the North Vietnamese Monday after five days of savage assaults in the northern sector by troops of four divisions, giving Hanoi its biggest victory of its current offensive.
		South Vietnamese troops abandoned Quang Tri and into enemy hands went territory stretching from the demilitarized zone 27 miles to the south.
		A mauled battalion of South Vietnamese rangers moving south from Quang Tri broke and fled after a day-long battle with troops of two North Vietnamese regiments near Highway l.
	www.thebattleofkontum.com /stars/072.html (955 words)

	DMZ — Vietnam
		In reality, the Vietnamese DMZ extended about a mile on either side of the Ben Hai River and ran west to east from the Laotian border to the South China Sea.
		The DMZ was breached by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) when they constructed the Ho Chi Minh Trail that allowed for the transport of troops and supplies to the National Liberation Front (NLF), or Vietcong, in the south.
		DMZ Vietnam's Demilitarized Zone was established in 1954 at the Geneva conference -- which created Vietnam from the former French colony of Indochina.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1885.html (454 words)

	Vietnam
		After his narrow victory over Hubert Humphrey was secured in the November 1968 election, Richard Nixon initiated contacts before his Inauguration with the North Vietnamese in hopes of reaching a settlement to resolve the conflict.
		Similarly, the North Vietnamese also convinced leaders of the National Liberation Front that the peace agreement should be approved to allow the release of all political prisoners.
		North Vietnamese tanks continued south along National Highway One, and 1,000 remaining Americans and some 5,000 South Vietnamese who had worked for or with the U.S. were hurriedly evacuated by plane or helicopter to U.S. carriers waiting offshore.
	www.eagleton.rutgers.edu /e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Vietnam-RMN.htm (1725 words)

	Wisconsin War LetterS
		In Operation Hastings, the Marines backed by South Vietnamese Army troops, the heavy guns of U.S. warships and their artillery and air power drive the NVA back over the DMZ in three weeks.
		April 1 - North Vietnamese soldiers push toward the city of Hue, which is defended by a South Vietnamese division and a division of U.S. Marines.
		But the 4,000 South Vietnamese men defending the city, reinforced by elite airborne units, hold their positions and launch furious counterattacks.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/Warletters/vietnam/vntimeline.htm (2291 words)

	The Twenty-five Year Century
		In 1966, at the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest generals in the Vietnamese Army.
		_________________________________________________________ LAM QUANG THI was born in the South Vietnamese province of Bac Lieu.
		He was awarded the Vietnamese National Order, 3rd Degree; the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with seventeen combat citations; the U.S. Legion of Merit; and the Korean Order of Chung Mu.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/2002/thi.htm (395 words)

	Vietnamese-American.org website is about empowering Vietnamese-Americans
		The military increased the dose of herbicides to be used during that fiscal year to five million gallons (costing $32 million), and announced6 their intention of spending $57,690,000 more for that purpose during the fiscal year beginning 1 July 1967 (for the fiscal year 1966, the bill amounted to $10 million).
		From Vietnamese sources 320,000 acres of crops are said to have been destroyed in 1953, 500,000 acres in 1964 and 700,000 in 1965.
		42 And the Vietnamese {221} newspaper Sang Kum must be congratulated for having thought of publishing (August 1967) a set of rules to be observed in case of contamination by the defoliants.
	www.vietnamese-american.org /b3.html (7167 words)

	Vietnam Passage. The Perspectives: Landmines: War's Lingering Menace \| PBS
		In the years since the fall of Saigon, over 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (explosives) left behind from that conflict.
		While the problems are grim, there is good news: several humanitarian agencies and private organizations have formed to increase education and awareness of the problem and to raise funds to help victims and to de-mine the fields and rice paddies.
		Groups like the grassroots PeaceTrees Vietnam are working alongside the Vietnamese people to reverse the destructive consequences of the war in Vietnam through healing, reconciliation and mutual cooperation.
	www.pbs.org /vietnampassage/perspectives/perspectives.landmines.html (499 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Taiwan seeks demilitarised zone
		Mr Chen said troops and missiles should be removed from the area as a prelude to talks between the two sides.
		President Chen called for the "establishment of a demilitarised zone (including removal of combat personnel, equipment and deployed missiles), creating a buffer zone in terms of time and space to facilitate negotiation".
		He did not say where the zone might be.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3453631.stm (307 words)

	THE WAR IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES: CHAPTER II: Preparing For A Showdown
		It was intended to counter the massive infiltration of North Vietnamese troops and equipment across the demilitarized zone.
		The system was an overall effort to counter both enemy infiltration and direct invasion by making enemy movement across the demilitarized zone simultaneously more expensive for the attacker and less expensive for the defender.
		A regiment of the Vietnamese 1st Division later relieved the marines occupying a sector of the defenses facing the demilitarized zone.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/northern/nprovinces-ch2.htm (1683 words)

	This Day in History
		These strikes were followed by South Vietnamese troop attacks against the area from which the rockets were fired.
		Quang Tri fell to the North Vietnamese during their spring offensive earlier in the year.
		South Vietnamese forces reclaimed the city from the communists in September, but fighting continued in the areas around the city.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=1535 (256 words)

	30,000 'INVADERS' HURL BACK S. VIETS
		The South Vietnamese, calling it an "invasion" from North Vietnam, reeled back 10 miles from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) frontier between the two countries.
		By nightfall Saturday, the South Vietnamese had abandoned 10 outposts of the DMZ defense line as well as the town of Cam Lo (population 50,000).
		In Saigon, the South Vietnamese command claimed its troops were still in the area of bases they had abandoned and would take the counter-offensive shortly to reoccupy them.
	www.thebattleofkontum.com /stars/1.html (687 words)

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