Word: dau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Desk Soldiers. There was good reason for staying alert. Where the Communists had elected to do battle, they fought fiercely, even suicidally. Communist attackers threw themselves against a brigade headquarters of the U.S. 25th Division at Dau Tieng, an abandoned rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Saigon, damaging six helicopters and shooting down two others that attempted to get off the ground. At Long Binh, the sprawling U.S. Army Viet Nam headquarters northeast of Saigon, a guerrilla force led by a few regulars was beaten back at the wire with the loss of 132 men. A prisoner taken...
They broke the pattern only once, seemingly unable to resist a Fourth of July attack somewhere on U.S. troops. Early on the Fourth, they opened up with a 500-round mortar and rocket barrage on Dau Tieng, a U.S. fire base 38 miles northwest of Saigon. They followed up the barrage with a ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches...
...tenacity to life after an auto accident in Moscow six years ago astonished the medical world; of unspecified causes related to the accident; in Moscow. At the time the fourth Russian to win a Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically dead on four occasions. Eventually he recovered enough...
...they also take the above tradition literally. Once the grave-yards of their ancestors are destroyed, they would do anything to "revenge for the souls of the dead" or otherwise they and all their children after them will not be able to "raise their heads" (khong co the cat dau cat eo noi) which means that they will not be able to get anything anywhere in life. In fact, in the past, the destruction of another person's ancestral grave-yard was a capital crime. Now the one insult the Vietnamese find it hard to tolerate is any slighting remark...
Father Quealy, 37, a Roman Cath olic priest for ten years, volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain and was shipped out last January to South Viet Nam. Assigned to the 1st Division, Quealy - against the advice of senior officers at field headquarters in Dau Tieng - insisted on boarding a helicopter of medics and troop reinforcements flying to the relief of the Big Red One's 1st Battalion, under attack in War Zone C northwest of Saigon (see THE WORLD). Landing at the battle site, Father Quealy hurriedly gave last rites to dying soldiers from a platoon...