Word: danang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those carefree days came to an abrupt end when Uncle Sam beckoned and Venter obliged by becoming a Navy hospital corpsman. By 1967, when he was just 21, he was in Vietnam, stationed at the Naval Hospital in Danang. Venter was the senior corpsman in the emergency room during the Tet offensive. For five days he worked around the clock to mend, save or just ease the pain of thousands of young men. Shortly after Tet, when physician Ronald Nadal met him, Venter was in trouble again, following an altercation with a senior officer whom Venter advised to perform...
...once confided to White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, Martin feared even whispering the word "evacuation" would set off a Danang-style panic. But the ambassador also believed more fervently, and longer than almost anyone else, in the possibility of an accommodation with the communists. As late as April 28 he was cabling Kissinger that he foresaw Americans staying in Saigon for "a year or more." By then, Gotterdammerung was well under...
...well under way by Thieu's resignation. Responding to an urgent request from the forces in the South for more ammunition, Hanoi had sent thousands of trucks racing down the coastal highway loaded with rockets and shells. Bui Tin, a colonel and journalist for an NVA newspaper, arrived in Danang on April 21, en route from Hanoi to join the final push. Two days later he flew south on a helicopter that, he says, "was filled with new military maps of Saigon that had been rushed into print and flown from Hanoi" to guide the invaders...
...with China in the north to the rice mills of the Mekong Delta in the south, the California-size country is humming with activity. Hong Kong investors have been allowed to open a casino near Haiphong, and Westerners are bidding to develop tourist sites along the scenic coast between Danang and Nha Trang. Hanoi, long a city of bicycles and moldy old colonial edifices, is now rich in motorcycles and office buildings. In Ho Chi Minh City, as Saigon is now called, the April 30 parade marking the end of the war will be set against a landscape bristling with...
...removing them-as well as their urban countrymen-from the socialist dole for health care and education. The rural families can't afford to pay for health care, however, and many now keep their children at home to work the land. Peasants are beginning to pour into Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City in search of work. Most don't find it. "Before, we launched a war against foreign aggressors," General Vo Nguyen Giap told Time. "Now we must launch a war against poverty...