Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just a year ago that the first wave of U.S. Marines, M-14 rifles clutched at high port, waded ashore at Danang. The landing came at a dismally low point in South Viet Nam's long struggle for independence, with the Viet Cong on the offensive and threatening to cut the country in half. The marines were the U.S. reply, the commitment of the first organized American combat units to the ground war in Southeast Asia...
Nestled among emerald rice fields and sheltered by the Marine-garrisoned Danang hills, Ap Quang Nam was a showcase village. Passing Marine patrols and their frequent guests were greeted by smiling "hello-okays" from the hamlet's neatly dressed children. Ap Quang Nam's market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...
...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...
...been the effect on South Viet Nam's economy: vegetable prices have soared 60% since the Communists cut the line between Dalat and Saigon, and the cost of "33" brand beer, Viet Nam's favorite brew, has climbed from 15 to 70 piasters a bottle in Danang. Says a U.S. adviser: "The only way to secure the line is to take up the rails at 5 p.m., and lock them up for the night...
...domination." Hence the U.S. will probably reject Ky's offer but continue to subsidize the line to keep it rolling. Increased U.S. air cover and tougher-shelled turtles should be able to secure the key 240 miles of track that link the American enclaves-particularly the stretches from Danang to Hue and Saigon to Bien...