Word: cong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debris of Jeeps and armored cars lies rusting in the sun. Bunkers have collapsed. Abandoned shell casings and brittle gas masks litter the barren ground. No other town in the South suffered so severely during the war. In the spring of 1972, when it was encircled by the Viet Cong, at least 1,000 artillery and rocket rounds fell on An Loc every day. Today only a handful of buildings has been restored...
...simply Moscow's stand-in in the Southeast Asian geopolitical rivalry with Peking. But a more likely explanation is that the men who govern Viet Nam know of no other way except the exercise of military might to secure their country's safety. Says Colonel Tran Cong Man, editor in chief of Hanoi's army newspaper: "For 30 years people had one job-that was fighting...
South Viet Nam is now administered by battle-tough Viet Cong veterans. A 54-year-old lieutenant colonel, for example, was chosen to head Saigon's City Department of Social Service and administer $2.26 million a year. In Song Be province, Vu Xuan Thu, once a Viet Cong guerrilla leader, is deputy director of land clearing and New Economic Zones, a job that involves the destinies of 150,000 farmers. Thu claims to have killed 27 Americans during the war, but he admits that such heroics do not help him now. "In the army...
...defense. Brandishing two rifles, he had held patrons in a Maryland bank hostage for 6½ hours after yelling, "This is not a stickup." His lawyer argued that Gregory was reliving a wartime event in which his best friend was killed; the policemen outside the bank became the Viet Cong in Gregory's mind, while the hostages were the comrades he sought to lead to safety...
Elvis has a deeper reservoir of hatred and bitterness than anyone in popular music, or even the Viet Cong, driving him, they say, to compose madly into the night, compressing his rage into song after song, until this: music with a pulse sustained by passion and fear, energy driven by emotion, not (hello Mick Jagger) cocaine. And the tunes deliver. The glory of Get Happy!! is that Elvis has composed 18 fresh, interesting, accessible but not uncomplicated melodies, and has, with true artistry, wedded their substance perfectly to their sound. It may be his best album. Certainly, it surpasses...