Word: danang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week in Hanoi. In another private meeting, between the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese, Saigon's representatives promised better protection for the Communist truce watchers. Yet Hanoi did not seem reassured, and at week's end the Communists withdrew their JMC field teams from Hué and Danang. They were flown in U.S. aircraft to Saigon, thus further delaying the already tardy truce supervision process...
Tanks. Hanoi's complaints had some validity. Crowds of up to 4,000 South Vietnamese have assailed the Hanoi delegates at both Hue and Danang, throwing rocks and injuring six delegates. "If Saigon wants to stop these things, it can stop them," declared one high U.S. official. The Communist military representatives are mainly confined behind barbed wire and high fences in primitive compounds...
...pointed hats, Canadians in the dark green short pants of a kind that had not been seen in Saigon since French colonial days-seemed to be all over the capital. By week's end they, too, were sending out preliminary teams to inspect regional headquarter sites at Pleiku, Danang...
...almost as if Milo Minderbinder, the entrepreneurial mess officer who honored all contracts American and German, had stepped incarnate from the pages of Catch-22. On an overcast day last week, five U.S. fighter-bombers, using "precision" electronic bombing gear, went astray and swept over the U.S. airbase at Danang, South Viet Nam. They promptly deposited 34 500-lb. bombs on the sprawling installation. Only a "few" of the bombs landed on a fuel supply area, the military said; the rest fell harmlessly in open country. Those few, however, were enough to injure ten Americans and one Vietnamese. The bombs...
...Communists have been meticulous in planning a takeover of the key city of Danang, according to captured documents. When the agreement is broadcast, Communist troops will execute a two-part plan. Some units will make a concerted military assault on the city's police and militia posts. At the same time, other troops will "hang peace flags and lanterns, fly flower-decked balloons and hold unicorn dances [traditional Vietnamese dance at a time of joy], entertainment shows and peace-float processions to create an enthusiastic atmosphere and rally a large number of people. In the event the enemy represses...