Word: hued
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOSEPH P. NYE JR. U.S.M.C. Hué, South Viet...
...troubles. "Certainly the Ky government is stronger today than it was two weeks ago," said one Saigon expert, "but two weeks from now? It is a rash, rash man who would try to predict." For one thing, Buddhist Political Leader Thich Tri Quang was still in Hué, South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, which was in rebel hands...
...Quang openly accused the U.S. of supplying guns and tanks to Ky to destroy the Buddhists, and last week his mobs responded by burning the USIS library in Hue to the ground. Police and firemen calmly stood by watching. Later, rebel troops were dispatched to guard U.S. installations in Hué-a move hardly calculated to inspire American confidence. At week's end nearly all U.S. civilians were evacuated...
...near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some of the I Corps officers and men in Danang began agitating for Thi's return to command, Ky was confident that Tri Quang would lie low and let Saigon settle the matter among...
...Hué, the U.S. intervened so adroitly that even the wily Thich Tri Quang would have been impressed, had he not been grounded in Saigon by Ky's cancellation of all Air Viet Nam domestic flights. What the U.S. did was order the evacuation of all American civilians and military advisers in Hué. Night before they were due to leave, a province chief tried to call the Vietnamese division headquarters in Hué in order to get an artillery strike against the Viet Cong. Without the U.S. advisers around, not a Vietnamese soldier was on duty to answer...