Word: chuong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often forsaking the shadowy, hit-run tactics they have heretofore used in favor of challenging the government in set-piece battles. In the past fortnight alone, the Reds have mounted battalion-strength attacks in Tayninh and Kienhoa provinces, as well as the Delta village of Goden. Last week, in Chuong Thien province, they unleashed their biggest assault...
...Trail of Stench." That evening Mme. Nhu sallied forth in search of her estranged father, Tran Van Chuong, who was replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were...
...most part the crowds were merely curious. As for the press, it was ready with plenty of loaded questions. No sooner did Mme. Nhu arrive in New York than one reporter asked if she were "power-hungry," as her father, Tran Van Chuong, recently resigned as Saigon's ambassador to Washington, had claimed. "If I am," she replied in her rapid-fire but often imprecise English, "I would not indulge in such quixotism. I would betray Viet Nam instead of trying to help it. I am having the behavior of a Don Quixote, really." She wanted only...
...length of time Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr talked to Chuong's daughter...
...length of time Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr talked to Chuong's daughter...