Word: danang
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...antigovernment protest at its most verbose. In Danang, the English-language placards read: "Down With the American Conspiracy of Hindering the Summoning of a Constitutional Parliament. To Hinder the Summoning of Parliament Is to Intervent in the Viet Nam's Own Affairs." In Hue, the ancient Buddhist center 50 miles north west of Danang, 400 students took over the radio station for two days, broadcasting speeches and communiques denouncing the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and punctuating the polemics with, of all things, John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Last week they organized peaceful demonstrations all over the I Corps area, shut down Danang, where Thi's head quarters were located, with an all-day general strike. In Saigon, 10,000 gath ered at the Buddhist Center to hear bonzes demand elections and a return to civilian rule...
...short, Thai envisages "the Hong Kong type of activities," based upon "exporting products of light industries," as the key to South Vietnam's economic future. Such a plan, of course, would benefit cities like Saigon and Danang to the detriment of the countryside. That's okay with Thai, who wants to "reduce the economy's dependence on agriculture and Viet Cong control." He said he did not believe that military victories would be meaningless if Saigon could not command allegiance in captured territory...
...just a year ago that the first wave of U.S. Marines, M-14 rifles clutched at high port, waded ashore at Danang. The landing came at a dismally low point in South Viet Nam's long struggle for independence, with the Viet Cong on the offensive and threatening to cut the country in half. The marines were the U.S. reply, the commitment of the first organized American combat units to the ground war in Southeast Asia...
...week Premier Ky and his fellow generals relieved Thi of his I Corps command and expelled him from the Directory. Afterward, they blandly announced that they "had considered and accepted General Thi's application for a vacation." At week's end, though Buddhists demonstrated in Hue and Danang, the ousted soldier had failed to rouse a successful revolt in protest. "This may go down in history," said one U.S. wag in the capital, "as the Saigon Thi Party, because they got away with dumping...