Word: danang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago, a white sergeant caught a black Marine dozing on perimeter guard duty at Danang. The sergeant grabbed the sleeping grunt by the throat and told him: "If I were a V.C., you would be dead." That night the Marine lobbed a grenade into the sergeant's hootch, killing him and sending two other NCOs to hospitals in Japan...
After the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh, Vietnamese police and American M.P.s quickly halted the truck involved. Pfc. Matias Yzaguirre Jr., 22, a Mexican American from Brownsville, Texas, was sent to the Danang stockade, charged with negligent homicide. Shock among Minh's schoolmates turned to outrage when U.S. officials insisted that the shooting had been accidental. "It was no accident," said a witness. "He wanted to shoot...
...back out? Howard wanted to talk with me. I got to Los Angeles, checked in at a hotel, made my presence known to a Hughes aide−and waited. But the next morning a headline caught my eye: the Buddhist riots were flaring again in Saigon and Danang. I didn't even call the aide" back. Within two hours, I was on the next flight to Asia. I do wonder, though, what it was that Howard wanted to talk about...
...Defense Committee, set up three months ago by a group of U.S. lawyers and law professors (TIME. Oct. 19). Aronson's strongest argument was that the publicity surrounding the courts-martial would only encourage widespread abuse of the C.O. regulation. Hours before the proceedings were to begin at Danang last week, the Army dropped the charges...
Kill Count. Calley was still eager when he took his platoon into the countryside south of Danang and set up an ambush for Viet Cong troops. "I knew the V.C. were somewhere nearby because-well, I was in South Viet Nam. Our captain, Captain Medina, wouldn't send me somewhere if I couldn't get a big kill count, right?" For hours nothing happened. Calley's bravado turned to fear when he realized that his inexperienced soldiers had made too much noise to surprise any approaching enemy. "The V.C. must know I'm here. They must...