Word: danang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just below the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Their repair of long unused road and river infiltration routes directly through the DMZ bodes ill for northern I Corps, always a vulnerable area and the scene of the war's bloodiest battles. Already Vietnamese have begun fleeing from the countryside into Danang, fearful that rural security will vanish when the American troops...
...major intervention began on Feb. 7, 1965, with the first U.S. bombing of the North, followed in early March by the first U.S. ground-combat units going ashore near Danang. Surely nobody then in the White House, the Pentagon or Congress could have imagined that the commitment would grow to more than half a million men and the cost, at its peak, to nearly $30 billion a year; that more than six years later there would still be a quarter of a million Americans there; that in the first week of June 1971 the total of American dead would increase...
Other profiteering can be traced to U.S. bureaucratic indifference. Scrap lumber in Danang was formerly donated for use by homeless refugees. Today it is sold by contract to a wealthy Vietnamese trash collector, who then sells it to refugees at inflated prices. In one refugee village, where the average daily wage is less than 200 piasters (73?), a 4-ft. by 8-ft. sheet of scrap plywood costs 800 to 1,000 piasters; a cardboard carton brings 200 piasters. Under the system that has evolved, the refugees pay rich Vietnamese for the privilege of living under cast-off American crates...
...version of the Orwellian Newspeak: Newcount. TIME Correspondent David Greenway recalls overhearing an American company commander, whose men had just found three enemy bodies, discussing with his platoon leaders what number to report to the battalion commander. "They decided on 20," writes Greenway. "But when I got back to Danang, I found the figure sent to Saigon on this engagement had grown...
...officers ticked off indications of a major Communist buildup, including a flood of supplies in the Laotian pipeline. According to the briefers, 90% of the materiel earmarked for South Viet Nam was being shunted into I Corps. The buildup obviously presaged trouble in the coastal cities of Hue and Danang. But MACV asserted that it also posed a "serious threat" to U.S. troop withdrawals and that a "preemptive offensive" was planned with "limited objectives." Few reporters in Saigon doubted that the jargon was a verbal screen for a direct ARVN assault on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...