Word: dang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be more interesting if he did it before a large crowd," said Lenny C. Dang '90, who overheard Karol at the next table in the Quincy House dining hall...
...River sounds like an unlikely marriage: Mark Twain, giant of American literature, and Roger Miller, twangy country songwriter. Twain wrote penetratingly of the time when his nation was a frontier. Miller (Dang Me, King of the Road) provides at most a wistful echo of that era, a longing for the free and easy life now that there are few byways left to wander. But the musical, featuring 17 of Miller's down-home ditties, seems utterly natural, as full of unforced charm as Huck himself...
...university student. The next year he tried, and failed, to get his Vietnamese in-laws out of the country. Six years passed before they were allowed to immigrate to the U.S. TIME was able to get many of its Vietnamese employees and their families out of the collapsing country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew out with his wife and six children on a U.S. Air Force plane a week before Saigon's fall. So did Staff Photographer Le-Minh Thai, now employed...
...Phnom Malai campaign also left Thailand pondering what to do with refugees associated with the Khmer Rouge, a group that many Kampucheans still despise for their atrocities while running the country between 1975 and 1978. ; The latest refugee contingent will probably not be sent to Khao I Dang, the main Thai camp for Kampucheans, nor are the Thai authorities eager to establish a special settlement. Said a Thai army major at the border, perhaps overoptimistically: "We will keep them for a while. Then we will send them back...
...Dong Dang is only one of many villages on both sides of the border that have felt the effects of the most serious clashes between China and Viet Nam. Ever since 1979, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops rushed across the frontier, low-level skirmishes between the Communist adversaries have been a springtime ritual. Although wildly conflicting reports from Hanoi and Peking have obscured the real extent of this year's fighting, the sheer volume of the competing claims and counterclaims appears to confirm that the situation has seriously deteriorated. Only last week, the Vietnamese claimed they...