Word: hue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Randers wait in mingled hope and dread for word of Sergeant First Class Donald Rander of Army Intelligence, captured at Hue on Feb. 1, 1968. Shortly thereafter two fellow soldiers who escaped reported that he had been wounded in the arm but was alive in a Viet Cong prison camp in South Viet Nam. There has been no word from Rander in five years. So his women wait, worry and try to pretend that there is holly in their hearts...
There was good reason for the excitement. The orange hue indicated that the lunar material may have oxidized, or rusted. That, in turn, meant that it had probably been exposed to water or oxygen. The only likely source for such vapors on the arid, airless moon were volcanic vents in the lunar surface. Indeed, some scientists had suspected earlier that Shorty Crater (which resembles volcanic vents on earth) had been created volcanically rather than by the impact of a meteorite (which is how most of the moon's craters are believed to have been formed). As they await...
Most of the 150,000 Montagnards who remain in resettlement camps are forced to live chiefly on meager handouts of rice. At the Nguyen Hue camp in central Kontum, one refugee told TIME Correspondent Rudolph S. Rauch that he had been given fish or fish sauce only three times in three months, and had never received any meat or vegetables. Other Montagnards complained that they were not even getting their full portions of rice, supposedly 500 grams per person...
...lost support for the perpetrators, the NLF terror has built support by eliminating hated outsiders, who usually were foisted on a village by the central Saigon government. Lacking the unlimited support of a wealthy superpower, the NLF was forced to rely on the support of the villagers. The 1968 Hue massacre which has reached legendary status in American propaganda, was indiscriminate, but as Frances Fitzgerald notes in her acclaimed book, Fire in the Lake, the Hue massacre seems to have been the work of troops gone beserk. Unlike the indiscriminate terror of the United States and Saigon governments, the killing...
...North Vietnamese have not captured Hue or any other major city except Quang Tri, which they have successfully defended for two months with a constant artillery barrage against some of Saigon's best troops. Instead, they have been fanning out over the countryside and expanding their area of operation. The North Vietnamese have been relying primarily on the use of small units, though their soldiers are frequently supported by tanks and long-range 130-mm. guns. In many sections of the Mekong Delta, as a result of steadily mounting pressure from the small units of Communist troops, security...