Word: danang
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...Dick Hughes, 30, formerly a Boston drama teacher and a friend of Actor Jon Voight, went to Viet Nam in 1968 simply to discover for himself what was going on. Five years later, he runs seven houses of refuge for orphaned Vietnamese boys (five in Saigon and two in Danang). "You have to understand that these boys have nothing," Hughes says. "In Viet Nam, one's career, even one's personal identity, is sublimated to the family. When you lose your family, you lose everything." During the past five years, almost 1,000 boys have stayed at Hughes...
...John Tabor, 28, of Jaffrey, N.H., will be ordained as a Roman Catholic deacon next month after seven years of study in a Vietnamese seminary. Then he will spend the next several years working in a poor Danang parish. Tabor, who went to Viet Nam as a Seabee, has difficulty expressing himself in English these days; he has spoken Vietnamese almost exclusively since he entered the seminary. "It was in 1963, when I first came to Viet Nam, that I began to see things clearly. At least in spiritual matters, the Vietnamese should have been advising the Americans...
...Saigon near the Cambodian border, where the Communists are believed to have heavy equipment. Throughout South Viet Nam, Thieu's artillery thud away with out letup. "The South Vietnamese are unloading ship after ship of 105-mm. and 155-mm. artillery shells," says an ICCS member in Danang. "And God knows they need it. They shoot off that much on Sundays alone...
...chosen arbitrarily for bookkeeping purposes. It was ten years after U.S. financial aid began to flow to the South Vietnamese, more than two years after the first American advisers were killed, 3½ years before the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and four years before the Marines landed at Danang. So it seemed altogether fitting that the end of the American involvement in the Viet Nam War-March 30, 1973-should also fall on a rather random day: 35 days after the last American battlefield casualty, and before an end to the bombing in Indochina (now over Cambodia), to the financial...
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...