As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.

* 1974 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress places a $ 1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

Rural-to-urban migration rates dramatically increased in South Vietnam, as peasants escaped the war and famine in the countryside by fleeing to the U. S .- dominated cities.

The urban population in South Vietnam nearly tripled: from 2. 8 million people in 1958, to 8 million by 1971.

By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, at an average concentration of 13 times the recommended USDA application rate for domestic use.

In South Vietnam alone, an estimated 10 million hectares ( 25 million acres, 39, 000 square miles ) of agricultural land were ultimately destroyed.

Map showing locations of U. S. army aerial herbicide spray missions in South Vietnam taking place from 1965 to 1971

The first batch of herbicides was unloaded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, on January 9, 1962.

By 1971, 12 percent of the total area of South Vietnam had been sprayed with defoliating chemicals, at an average concentration of 13 times the recommended USDA application rate for domestic use.

In South Vietnam alone, an estimated 10 million hectares of agricultural land were ultimately destroyed.

In the 1970s, high levels of dioxin were found in the breast milk of South Vietnamese women, and in the blood of U. S. soldiers who had served in Vietnam.

The Embassy here has expanded its setup with the appointment of a Military Attache and prospects appear bright for more defence exports as Ecuador has agreed to be the servicing hub in South America for Indian defence equipment.

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He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Deakin University, Murdoch University and the University of South Carolina, and is a Professorial Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the University of Melbourne.

* 1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.

Major General A W Dennis, CB, OBE ( rtd ), British Army, previously Director of Military Assistance Overseas, made the following comments on the initial phase in Namibia at a conference in Pretoria, South Africa on 6 August 1992:

* Greg Mills, BMATT and Military Integration in South Africa, South African Defence Review, Issue 2, 1992 Covers reformation of Namibian Defence Force and British involvement

* 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Military ties remain fraught with tension, however, and in 2002 a brief naval skirmish left four South Korean sailors dead, leaving the future of the Sunshine policy uncertain.

* The South African Military History Society-The Zulu Military Organization and the Challenge of 1879

* December 20 – The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, is established.

* American Society of Military History and Museums, South El Monte, Ca.

South Hudson Institute of Technology has sometimes been used to describe the United States Military Academy at West Point.

* Military history of South America

* Second Military District: North Carolina and South Carolina, under General Daniel Sickles

" The four predecessor institutions consolidated to form the new university included the University of Florida at Lake City ( formerly Florida Agricultural College ) in Lake City, the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School in St. Petersburg, and the South Florida Military College in Bartow.

* The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, a public college in South Carolina

In 1998 South Africa passed the " Foreign Military Assistance Act " that banned citizens and residents from any involvement in foreign wars, except in humanitarian operations, unless a government committee approved its deployment.

The Big South Conference began sponsoring football in 2002, with Charleston Southern University, Gardner – Webb University, and Liberty University fielding teams ; Coastal Carolina University and Virginia Military Institute joined the conference as football-playing members in 2003.

* Military history of South Africa

Between 1912 and 1927 three governments had been set up in South China: the Provisional government in Nanjing ( 1912 ), the Military government in Guangzhou ( 1921 – 1925 ), and the National government in Guangzhou and later Wuhan ( 1925 – 1927 ).

Category: Regions of South America

Regions within North America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and East Asia are monsoon regimes.

Category: Regions of South America

Category: Regions of South America

Each February the city hosts the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, which are men's ATP World Tour 500 series and WTA events, respectively.

In March, Davenport won her second tournament of the year and 55th career singles title by beating Olga Govortsova in the final of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships & The Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee.

The UK Regions are: East of England, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West, West Midlands and Yorkshire ; Northern Ireland, part of the UK, is treated, for historical reasons, as a single all-Ireland region — ' Ireland ' — that includes the Republic of Ireland.

LGA Regions in New South Wales

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The greater part of the area is now administered as the Government Office Regions of the West Midlands and East Midlands, though parts of the traditional Midlands are also in surrounding regions, namely Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ( East of England ), Oxfordshire ( South East ), Gloucestershire ( South West ) and Northern Lincolnshire ( Yorkshire and the Humber ).

The Regions of North Karelia | North and South Karelia lie in Finland and the Karelian Republic in Russia.

Regions where deeper penetration can occur includes the north pole, south pole, and South Atlantic magnetic anomaly.

The expectation values can be interpreted as: The mean salary of public school teachers in the West is equal to the intercept term α < sub > 1 </ sub > in the multiple regression equation and the differential intercept coefficients, α < sub > 2 </ sub > and α < sub > 3 </ sub >, explain by how much the mean salaries of teachers in the North and South Regions vary from that of the teachers in the West.

The sociologists produced Rupert Vance's The Human Geography of the South ( 1932 ), and Odum's Southern Regions of the United States ( 1936 ), as well as numerous articles in the journal Social Forces.

The major ones are Sinama Sibutu ( spoken mainly in the Sibutu-Sitangkai Region ), Sinama Simunul ( concentrated in Simunul-Manuk-Mangkaw Islands ), Sinama Kapoan ( spoken in the South Ubian-Tandubas and Sapa-Sapa Regions ) and Sinama Banguingui ( concentrated in Buan Island and spoken by Banguingui people ).

Category: Regions of New South Wales

There are five ' Regions ' ( North, East, Wales & West, South & South West, South East ), each headed by a Regional Manager ( responsible for all staff and RSPCA HQ facilities ) assisted by a Regional Superintendent who has responsibility for the Chief Inspectors, Inspectors, AWOs and ACOs.

Category: Regions of South Sudan

Regarding the latter issue, generally speaking, northern party members were staunch proposers of political, fiscal federalism and autonomy for the Regions ( in some parts of Veneto and Lombardy, it was sometimes difficult to distinguish a member of FI from a leghista ), while those coming from the South were more cold on the issue.

For visitors from the Southern, Southeastern and Mid-Eastern Regions, the best route is BR-010, which originates in Brasília in the South, and also PA-150, a route that links Belém to Southern Pará.