Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLARK: This time two years ago, we were fighting in the streets of Saigon, Hue and almost every other major town in the country. Now the fighting is taking place almost completely in the thinly populated provinces bordering the sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia. This seems to me the biggest accomplishment of the past two years-moving the enemy away from the population centers, where he can really hurt you. I think our side is ahead in this game, and the other side had better do something pretty drastic or they'll be too far behind to catch...
...Viet Cong regulars overran the tiny hamlet of Huu Thanh in the Mekong Delta and destroyed nearly every building. Last week, as South Viet Nam celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Dog, government flags flew from every home and the town was almost completely rebuilt. In Hue, nearly wrecked by savage street fighting two years ago, crowds flocked to the reconstructed market, buying New Year gifts for their families from the 2,000-odd vendors. Pretty Saigon girls in ao dais posed for their boy friends' cameras before the city's monuments. All over war-wracked...
...virtually everyone but the military, that is. All leaves were canceled. Outside Saigon, South Vietnamese armor stood guard. In Hue, flak-jacketed ARVN Rangers carrying M-16s mingled with the holiday crowds. Memories of the 1968 holocaust were very much on the military's mind, but there was optimism as well. In the delta's lush Ba Xuyen province, a district chief discounted chances of a VC attack: "We've driven them out and I think they know better than to return." Earlier in the week, the enemy had mounted a minioffensive: 70 cities and bases were...
During the Tet offensive in February, 1968, Dr. Nelson was captured by the NLF and held prisoner in the mountains around Hue for two months...