Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family was originally from Hue. They moved to Saigon in 1956 to buy a pharmaceutical company owned by a Frenchman. It was one of the largest companies in South Vietnam, with about 600 employees. It is nationalized...
After studies in Hue and Saigon, Ho worked his way as a cabin boy aboard a ship to Europe. There, supporting himself with odd jobs (pastry cook at London's Carlton Hotel, photo retoucher in Paris), he became enamored of Communism as the means of overthrowing his country's imperialist burden...
...skilled public relations move, the P.R.G. also allowed CBS's Peter Kalischer, 60, A.P.'s Daniel De Luce, 63, and his wife, as well as several other foreign newsmen, to visit Danang and Hue via Hanoi and send out eyewitness reports on the return to normal routines in those onetime citadels of American might. Clearly, one phase of press coverage was ending and another had just begun...
During World War II, Tra at first led a 200-man guerrilla band near the Laotian border but rose rapidly in the ranks of the Viet Minh, the Communist-led liberation movement. In 1945, as the leader of a Viet Minh force that occupied the imperial capital of Hue, he was quartered in the former French Resident's master bedroom. After the first night, Tra complained that the bed was too soft; he wound up sleeping on the floor. In 1946 Tra became chief of staff of the Viet Minh in central Viet Nam. Not long after...
...victory. It is true that the NLF has on occasion assassinated officials of the Saigon government--generally carefully selected officials, hated outsiders foisted upon villagers by a remote Saigon administration. More rarely, NLF forces have resorted to more indiscriminate terror--as in the nearly legendary and possibly mythical Hue massacre of 1968, or PRG forces' unconscionable shelling of Saigon slums last week. But lacking the unlimited support, up-to-date military equipment, and direct military intervention of a wealthy patron superpower, the PRG--unlike the Saigon government--was never able to make terror its principal strength, even...