Word: hoang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week new charges of Korean atrocities were reviewed. A Lower House Deputy, Nguyen Cong Hoang, one of the representatives of Phu Yen province, had prompted an official investigation several weeks ago into a My Lai-type massacre that reportedly occurred in his province on July 31. On that day, troops of the First Battalion of the "Tiger" Division's 26th Regiment were conducting a mopping-up operation. As the troops passed near Phu Long hamlet, they were fired upon by small arms. A platoon leader and a sergeant were killed. The Koreans dug in and, with the approval...
...defenders, fell to the Communists within minutes after the last U.S. advisers had been helicoptered out. Immediately, the Communists set up a "revolutionary administration" in the city. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu angrily relieved both the commander of Military Region I, General Hoang Xuan Lam, and the 3rd Division's commander, General Vu Van Giai. No replacement was named for Giai; there was no 3rd Division left...
...hospital, the wounded were packed two to a bed. DeVoss talked with Hoang Thien, a 57-year-old laborer whose wife and daughter were there for treatment of shrapnel wounds from mines planted by the Communists on the shoulders of the roads. "The V.C. didn't want anyone to leave, because once the people go the B-52s come," said Thien. "But a V.C. rocket destroyed my house, so I had no choice. They shot at us so we don't go, but we ran for two days until we hit the mines." For the first time...
...embassy publication, which frequently carries articles by high-ranking members of the Saigon Foreign Ministry, lauded the "Phoenix" (or Phoung Hoang) program which has served as an instrument for the assassination of those whom Saigon labels "communists...
...reason why the operation stalled was that it took six days for General Hoang Xuan Lam, the ARVN commander, to get around to establishing a forward command post inside Laos, where the troops, the B-52s and the other elements could be coordinated. What is more, Lam's staff was riven by jealousies. Major General Le Nguyen Khang, who bosses South Viet Nam's elite Marines and holds a slight seniority edge over Lam, was so miffed when Lam was named to run the Laos operation that he retired to Saigon and turned his responsibilities over...