Word: hues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark and windy. Scuttling northwest from the ancient Buddhist capital of Hue, the two helicopters were above effective small-arms range as they followed the stretch of Vietnamese coast known as "The Street Without Joy." All at once the lead chopper erupted in a burst of fire and smoke, then crashed on its back in a flooded paddyfield, carrying five men to death. Whether the Dong Ha bound Huey was destroyed by Communist gunfire, sabotage or a freak accident may never be known, though Hanoi was quick to crow that its gunners had downed the bird. What was known...
...seat Senate entered the final week, Communist terrorists began campaigning with a vengeance to frighten voters away from the polls. In one day, in a coordinated series of attacks the length of the narrow nation, guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket and mortar assault against Can Tho, largest...
Heckling in Hue. Undaunted, the eleven candidates for President stepped up their own efforts to collect ballots...
...speak. An old farmer at a Delta rally challenged Dai Viet Party Leader Ha Thuc Ky: "We hear you have two big villas and an American limousine." The other Ky, Premier and vice-presidential candidate on the government ticket with Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, ventured into hostile Hue, where he had put down a simmering, Buddhist-led revolt last year...
...closed by violence. Last week a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into the living room of a village chief on Danang Bay. They killed a member of a government propaganda team distributing leaflets in Quang Nam province. They kidnaped two elders from a hamlet less than a mile from Hue. And they shot a villager in a hamlet in Thua Thien as a lesson to all the villagers not to vote in South Viet Nam's presidential elections. It was all in a week's work of governing, Viet Cong-style...