Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last images of the war: U.S. Marines with rifle butts pounding the fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air?some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from...
...begins," as tourist brochures endlessly remind visitors. For thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
...everybody did. Pending immigration clearance, the State Department ordered that evacuees be confined to the compound, and barbed wire was strung in some areas-an unpleasant precaution that not only protected the security of the base but, as it turned out, shielded the refugees from hordes of gawkers, hucksters and newsmen. Forbidden to go as far as the base noncommissioned-officers' club for a glass of beer, American citizens quickly protested that they were being treated like prisoners. "They won't let me out!" one American complained by telephone to a stateside relative. Said Jacques Carbonel, waving...
...French embassy compound in Phnom-Penh, staffed only by a vice consul and a cipher clerk, was jammed with about 400 French citizens, some 400 Cambodians who claim French blood and about two dozen foreign journalists and representatives of international organizations. According to officials in Paris, sanitary conditions within the refuge were poor, intestinal disease was rife and there were serious shortages of food, water and medicine...
...fate of some key members of the Lon Nol regime remained unclear. Former Premiers Long Boret and Sirik Matak were assumed to have been arrested by the Communists, along with several hundred lower-level officials who first found refuge in the French embassy compound but were later forced to leave. Some of these may already be dead; a radio broadcast from inside Cambodia told of beheadings, but could not be confirmed. Political trials in Phnom-Penh were said to be beginning...