Word: hued
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essentials can be tough enough. A CAS plane was one of the last to leave the Citadel at Hué when North Vietnamese regulars stormed in. Another dropped in at Khe Sanh during the height of the siege to evacuate two wounded newsmen. Even in ordinary operations, CAS pilots, most of whom are ex-military aviators, more than earn their average tax-free pay of $2,000 a month. Often their "airstrips" are barely that-for example, at Nui Sap the strip is a 60-ft.-wide dike top that stretches for 960 ft. between two paddyfields. There...
Died. Major General Robert F. Worley, 48, deputy commander of the American Seventh Air Force and the third American general to die in Viet Nam; when his RF-4C Phantom jet was hit by enemy ground fire while on a reconnaissance mission; near Hué. A longtime fighter pilot with World War II combat experience in the Italian and Pacific theaters, Worley was one of the Air Force's youngest and most promising leaders. He had been in operational command of Air Force ground-support and tactical bombing in the two Viet Nams, and was scheduled to leave...
...Dinh Thao, 66, a Saigon lawyer and onetime partner of Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the N.L.F., was held at least once by Saigon authorities for championing peace movements unacceptable to the government; Thich Don Hau, the Alliance's vice chairman, was a leader of militant Buddhists in Hué. The other eight are students, teachers, a journalist and a woman doctor, who is the only known Communist in the group...
...month contract. The unions that held out won a slightly better pact than the Teamsters, who had settled for $30 a week last March. But the extra pay hardly seemed worth the idle hours and the anguish caused by the protracted strike. If the shutdown proved anything, beyond hu man obstinacy, it was that a modern U.S. city can ill afford the loss of its daily newspapers...
...Billion Program. Beyond the bombing issue, Hanoi is expected to propose that the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, which include the cities of Hué and Quang Tri, be turned into a buffer zone. That would be a tough proposal for the allies to accept, since it would effectively give Hanoi part of what it sought-and failed to get-in 1954: partition of the country near the 16th parallel instead of the 17th. The U.S. is likely to call for a return to the conditions set forth, and frequently violated, at Geneva in 1954, with emphasis...