Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inching her Chevy van across water-covered roads and mud flats last week, Mayor Jo Mapel of Bailey's Prairie, Texas, couldn't begin to guess how huge the damage bill would be. Most of the ranching hamlet (pop. 634) near the Gulf Coast lay submerged under the dark red waters of the Brazos River and adjoining creeks. Said Mapel: "Nobody's escaping without big problems. This mess is going to be with us for months...
...center, set off from Hanoi on a seven-hour, 150- mile drive through the scenic karst valleys of Son La province to Phu Yen district. Before the last two-hour leg of the journey, the driver warned that we would not be able to stop until we reached the hamlet of Phu Yen because even a brief halt in daylight might leave us prey to the bandits who operate in the area...
Midway up the trail we met Trieu Van Hin, the party chief of Suoi Pai hamlet, close to the crash site. He had led a squad of villagers to hack some of the foliage away from the trail, clearing our path. Almost exactly 26 years earlier, Hin had been one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the crash, less than half a mile from the present location of Suoi Pai hamlet...
...continued to argue at the crash site, squatting on what appeared to be the cowling of one of the F-4's engines. Hin, the hamlet party chief, tended to agree with Phe but said he had left before the burial to attend a meeting in Phu Yen. When he returned to the crash site several days later, the men had been buried. Pin said the graves lay deep in the jungle up the mountainside -- though he could not remember exactly where. According to Phe, however, the site was only 15 ft. away. He quickly located one of the spots...
Exhausted and disappointed, we returned to the hamlet. For dinner we ate crackers and sardines. Most of the villagers dined on sticky rice and manioc. The distended bellies of half a dozen naked toddlers bore testimony to the fact that some had no evening meal...