Word: binh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marsh Clark: We drove down Highway 1 from Saigon. The sun was just coming up as we passed Long Binh Post, once the largest American military base in the world, standing virtually deserted save for the curly-tailed dogs nosing around in the discarded refuse...
...transfer home. Huddled in the shade by the sprawling base terminal building was a curious sight-five North Vietnamese P.O.W.s dressed in the maroon pajamas that are standard issue for prisoners. They were left virtually unguarded because all were amputees. Their first destination was a camp at nearby Long Binh. Within 60 days, they presumably will be back home in North Viet...
Smoke. Yet as Saigon's intelligentsia anticipates a cease-fire as all but inevitable, South Vietnamese peasants were not so sure that the years of fighting would ever end. In a hamlet in Binh Duong province, a middle-aged woman sat in front of a hut that had sheltered her family until North Vietnamese soldiers dug bunkers near by and South Vietnamese airplanes bombed the enemy-and her house. "Peace? A ceasefire? Look at our house. This is peace?" she scoffed. Predicted a farmer about both sides: "They will just keep fighting and fighting, while the people stay...
...showdown negotiations between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese resumed last week, TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and European Correspondent William Rademaekers were ushered into the suburban Paris headquarters of Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the intense, austerely handsome head of the Viet Cong delegation to the peace talks and Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Speaking slowly and deliberately, Madame Binh, 45, set out her authoritative views of the approaching peace settlement in a rare and lengthy 90-minute interview. Among her most interesting comments...
More Muscle. To protect the capital, U.S. B-52s have been concentrating on a portion of Binh Duong province, which lies 25 to 50 miles north of Saigon. In addition, every night at least five C-130 gunships circle the city from 8:30 p.m. until dawn, dropping illumination flares and firing on anything that moves in certain areas along the capital's perimeter. On the ground the city is further protected by 33 watchtowers, heavy artillery and a national police force of 21,000 men. Says one U.S. analyst: "As in any big city, it is possible for small...