Word: gia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would the "helos" pick us up from a pad on the roof? Or would buses take us to Tan Son Nhut, which had been under Communist attack for twelve hours? At 35 Gia Long we discovered that the building door had been padlocked. There were no instructions, only a faded Sign: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, SAIGON EDUCATION CENTER. A few French civilians joined our group...
...capital of Hué, which was already crammed with war refugees from other embattled areas in Military Region I. South of Ban Me Thuot along Route 14, the Communists captured the district capital of Duc Lap and three base camps, thereby threatening Quang Duc province and its capital of Gia Nghia. Still farther south, in Military Region III, the North Vietnamese tightened the pressure on another embattled provincial capital, Tay Ninh (TIME, Feb. 17), by trying to cut Route 22, which connects it to Saigon...
More Protest. Next day 5,000 Catholics were scheduled to march from the suburb of Gia Dinh to central Saigon, where they would join with other protesting groups. None of them made it. In Gia Dinh, would-be paraders awoke to discover their district surrounded by a police line. They tried to march anyway. In the melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded...
Peking insists that its legal right to the Paracels dates back 2,000 years, to the Han dynasty. Saigon traces its claim back to the reign of Vietnamese Emperor Gia Long at the beginning of the 19th century. Whatever the legalities. Western analysts were surprised that China regarded the Paracels as important enough to warrant the use of arms, especially when Peking has been portraying itself as a peaceful member of the Asian community. Certainly neither the guano deposits nor swallows' nests nor tortoise shells nor edible sea slugs that constitute the islands' sole resources could have prompted...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and them built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...