Word: hue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downtown seat of commerce and government. They also believe that attacks will be made at the same time on smaller cities the length of South Viet Nam, as in the Tet offensive. Allied units have reported buildups of Communist troop concentrations, for example, in the vicinity of both Hue and Danang...
...Using Russian-made bulldozers, they had widened the old French road running down the valley center, Route 548, to six lanes, and built a brand-new road called 547A that branched off from another road, Route 547, and emerged from the valley aimed straight at the heart of Hue. Such passable weather as A Shau ever knows comes in April and May, and three weeks ago, under the tightest secrecy of any allied operation of the war, Operation Delaware was launched to punch into the Communists' craggy lair...
When the North Vietnamese swept into the city of Hue during Tet, they brought with them political officers armed with photographs and dossiers of the city's anti-Communist leaders and government officials. Working door to door like pollsters of death, the Communists during their 24-day occupation hunted down and systematically slaughtered their quarry, young and old, men and women, Vietnamese and foreigners (TIME, April 5). The grim magnitude of that brief reign of terror emerged in an official U.S. report released last week...
...Some 20 victims met their fate-burial alive-at the end of a death march from the Redemptorist Church, where they had sought refuge, to Ap Lang Xa Con more than two miles away. Among them was Tran Dien, one of Hue's five Senators in the National Assembly in Saigon...
...Liberation Front: the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces of Viet Nam. Since the South Vietnamese constitution bans Communist political parties, the Alliance is a showcase of socialist, pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating...