Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen and the hamlet chief. Farther north, in the Central Highlands, the seasoned North Vietnamese 28th Regiment temporarily overran Fire Base Six, capturing four U.S. advisers and killing or wounding some 200 ARVN troops...
...government had charged Calley with premeditated murder of not less than 30 Vietnamese along a trail in My Lai and of more than 70 villagers in a drainage ditch just east of the small hamlet. The jury found him guilty on both counts, but reduced the number of victims to not less than one in the first incident and not less than 20 in the second...
...rare needle. In his 30 years on Broadway, Cohen has developed an unusually cozy rapport with his stars. He publicizes them lavishly, respects their artistic judgments, and is an all-round problem-solver. When Cohen's 1964 Hamlet, Richard Burton, and his wife wanted tickets to the Frazier-Ali fight, they naturally rang up Alex (he got them a pair, but they didn't go). "How do you treat a star?" asks Alex. "Like a star." That is a little difficult at the Tonys where everyone is a star. He can provide them all with limousines...
...Land Reform officials have been particularly critical of the relocation, which they fear will nullify a Vietnamese government program intended to protect Montagnard hamlet land against encroachments by Vietnamese. The purpose of the "hamlet identification program" is to define the "living area" of each Montagnard hamlet, and thus make it legally inviolable...
...Vietnamese Directorate General of Land Affairs has now approved the principle that Montagnard hamlets which are relocated may choose to have legal title to their old hamlet land. However, U. S. officials think this right may be meaningless if Montagnards are forced to remain in relocation centers for years while Vietnamese continue cultivating their former land. "Why should we be so wishful as to think the Vietnamese will get off the land they are on now, even if the Montagnards have a legal title?" says one concerned official...