Word: duong
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...Major General Duong Van Minh, a tough, husky type whose mouth is filled with gold-capped broken teeth and who is regarded as one of the best officers in South Viet Nam. He is known as "Big" Minh, to distinguish him from Brigadier General Tran Van Minh, or "Little" Minh, no kin. He has no command at present, but serves as Diem's "military assistant...
...McNamara flew north from Saigon toward forested Binh Duong province, largely controlled by the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, gunners in the escorting H21 helicopters stood at open ports, scanning the terrain below over the barrels of .30-caliber machine guns. McNamara landed inside the defenses of a "strategic hamlet" called Ben Tuong, the pilot project of the U.S.-backed Operation Sunrise that was set up two months ago to isolate the population and to deny the Communists shelter and supplies...
...toughest and most dedicated Communists are those trained in North Viet Nam. Some were ordered into neighboring Laos, to fight with the Pathet Lao against the Royal government (see following story). Others, like captured Lieut. Duong, came into South Viet Nam by sea in junks posing as fishermen but carrying arms and medical supplies to Viet Cong bands. Many have died rather than surrender, but brief glances into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them...
...same everywhere that there has been conflict between French and Viet Minh. The town of Haï-duong, near Hanoi, was for a time Ho Chih-minh's headquarters and was recently taken by the French. It is the most utterly destroyed place since Lidice. Perhaps it is worse. Every building was burned or wrecked before the Viet Minh left. A favorite method is taking a pickax and weakening around the window frames of brick walls until they collapse...