Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles away, he dropped a 29-man Blue Team near the downed choppers. Within hours, in fierce fighting, often in chest-deep water, the Blues had killed 91 of the enemy. Some 70 of them turned out to be from the Aircav's old foe in previous Binh Dinh battles: the North Vietnamese 610th Sao Vang (Yellow Star) Division. With the Sao Vang as quarry, Operation Washington Irving rapidly mounted in scale. A large force from South Korea's Capitol Division wheeled in from the south. A contingent of South Vietnamese troops rushed in from the west. Closing...
...husband fled south to Saigon in 1954, and she soon became known in the refugee-swollen quarter of Gia Dinh as a woman who got things done. She organized a neighborhood school, founded a Catholic Mothers' Association, arranged housing and relief allotments for widows...
...thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...
...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...
Voting Is an Honor. The last time the Vietnamese had a national election, in 1961, the voters had a notable personality before them: President Ngo Dinh Diem. This time there were neither notable personalities nor concrete issues. Some 530 candidates were running for 108 places in an assembly that will write the country's new constitution, and it will be several days before all the winners are known. But in any case, there were, as Saigon analysts noted, no George Washingtons or Magsaysays among them. They were not running for a legislature. They represented no political parties. They stood...