Word: dak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clouded Chances. The fund was only one issue on which Percy has been collecting bad notices. Last month when he took his wife Loraine into Dak Son during a five-day tour of South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong opened fire with mortars. The incident might have been all to Percy's good as publicity, but the popular reaction was: "Any man who would take his wife into a situation like that is plain stupid." Percy protests that his wife invariably travels abroad with him and produces politically useful movies of his adventures. Besides, says he, "it never entered...
...three weeks here I've gotten to know some worthwhile people. One is an ARVN officers who saw some of the early Dak To fighting. His family owns some hillside vegetable gardens and he took me through them. Pointing to an ancestor shrine (which looks like bird stations on post) standing in the middle of a field he told me how much he hoped he'd be somebody's ancestor...
...Georgetown, Annapolis' colonial waterfront, Alexander Hamilton's New York City home, Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago houses, the Spanish architecture of Santa Fe, Seattle's Pioneer Square, Old Salem, N.C., or even the sod hut that was once a post office in Killdeer, N. Dak. From its Washington headquarters in Decatur House, Biddle's National Trust not only acts as catalyst for such projects but also runs nine landmarks...
Taking Over Con Thien. Still, the ARVN today is a lot better than it used to be. One measure: it is doing more operating at night, denying the Viet Cong their sanctuary of darkness. When a big fight looms, as at Dak To, Westmoreland no longer hesitates to have the ARVN participate in the action- and in the responsibility. The defense of Saigon is now largely in Vietnamese hands. Even more significantly, the U.S. Marines are beginning to turn over the task of manning the strongpoints along the Demilitarized Zone to the ARVN. Already the first units of the ARVN...
...TIME'S description of the massacre at Dak Son [Dec. 15] is the most moving and horrifying account I have ever read. Innocent civilians may occasionally be the victims of American bombing, but vicious, coldblooded, and calculated murderers...