Word: danang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into talcum powder cans. The Viet Cong run a sweeping intelligence network by means of Saigon's myriad bar girls, also have agents working in most of the U.S. military installations around the country. One knowledgeable observer estimates that at least half of the female help employed at Danang also work for the Viet Cong. Though the V.C. often encourage wives to go along with their guerrilla husbands, few women are actually combatants. An exception was among the Viet Cong dead after last month's bloody battle at Dong Xoai. There lay the body of a girl lieutenant...
That's the kind of war it continues to be in Viet Nam. Since the monsoon began, the Viet Cong have lost some 4,500 dead to about 1,900 on the government side. Last week 8,000 more marines landed at Danang, raising the total of Americans in South Viet Nam to 63,000, and President Johnson told a press conference that another 10,000 U.S. troops will soon arrive. Experts in Saigon foresaw 150,000 men by year's end. While last week's frenetic activity may have reflected a certain Communist desperation, the President...
...trails of blood indicating that several had been wounded. One was captured, turned out to be a North Vietnamese soldier named Do Xuan Hien, 29, who under questioning said that he had infiltrated into South Viet Nam three months ago with his entire battalion and had trained for the Danang raid for a month...
...Danang raid, as in many other ways, that "ugly little war" in Viet Nam last week got uglier - and bigger...
...nasty uncertainties of jungle warfare range from subversion to sabotage, from booby traps to base infiltration, and last week's damaging attack on the U.S. airbase at Danang (see THE NATION) was a deadly reminder that the best-equipped troops can be surprised by a determined enemy. For all that, Viet Nam has become a veritable jungle proving ground for new weapons and novel equipment, much of it designed specifically for the kind of war the U.S. must fight there. Some of the armament has already been thrown into combat, some is undergoing advanced testing, some is just...