Word: cuong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks this winter, Mrs. More was the foster mother of two of the children, Nguyen Phat Luom and Trang Cuong Viet, who were treated for severe urns and shrapnel wounds at the Beth Israel Hospital in November. Mrs. Moore accompanied the two children back to their families and left Saigon on January 30, only 12 hours before the current Viet Cong offensive began...
...boys, Trang Cuong Viet, 10, and Nguyen Phat Luom, 13, were injured by shrapnel and bombs in the South Vietnamese provinces. They were flown to Hanscom Field in Bedford by the United States Air Force. They will undergo reconstructive plastic surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline where doctors have offered their services without charge...
Foremost among the Negro combat heroes of Viet Nam are the two who won Medals of Honor. Pfc. Milton Olive, 19, won his award posthumously by throwing himself on a grenade and saving the lives of four multicolored squadmates during a fierce fire fight near Phu Cuong in 1965. The only living Negro Medal of Honor winner in the Viet Nam war is Medic Lawrence Joel, 39, now stationed at Fort Bragg...
...born physics grad from Earlham College who marched on London's Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half" (2½-ton army truck) and scavenging useful debris like 105-mm. ammo...
...What South Viet Nam's fighting men need is relief, however momentary, to shed the fatigue and despair of too much combat. Only the U.S. and its allies can provide that respite. When they do, the leadership and combativeness exemplified by Corporal Tu and Laughing Larry Luong, Major Cuong and Lieut. Commander Chau, may well exert themselves in every service...