Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, during a Communist attack on Saigon, TIME Correspondent John L. Cantwell, 30, was killed. Cantwell and four other journalists had taken a jeep and driven to Saigon's Chinese section of Cholon to investigate the extent of the attack when they were ambushed by Viet Cong soldiers. Though the journalists, who were dressed in civilian clothes, repeatedly cried out "Bao Chi! Bao Chi!" (reporter), the Viet Cong opened up on them with a burst of fire from their automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing dead. Cantwell...
...Hanoi. And the U.S. can argue that Hanoi already enjoys by far the better of the bargain. While 79% of the North is now free of bombing, Rusk noted last week, "not one square mile in South Viet Nam has any assurance of immunity from attacks by the Viet Cong...
...reaction of the Saigon government. Already, fears of a U.S. withdrawal have produced symptoms of a virulent anti-Americanism. Both Thieu and his flamboyant Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky last week swore they would "never" have anything to do with a coalition government that included the Viet Cong. Ky was particularly upset by U.S. criticism of the performance of the South's government and army. Speaking in Dalat, he lashed out at "those colonialists who think that by giving us a small quantity of material support that they can slander us. No one, be he named...
...course, is no more anxious than Thieu and Ky to accept a coalition that would swallow non-Communist elements. Speaking on CBS-TV's Face the Nation last week, William Bundy warned that an "imposed coalition" giving the Viet Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer...
...Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon, Bo's Southern mandarin background makes him an appropriate emissary not only for Hanoi but also for the Viet Cong...