Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early evening in Danang, a city blasted and weary of civil war. For eight days the six battalions of loyal Vietnamese troops dispatched from Saigon by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky had been closing the vise, block by block, street by street, on 800 rebellious soldiers in the military capital. Shattered trees, some completely sawed off by gunfire, lined Danang's bullet-spattered boulevards. Pocked walls, splintered doors and decapitated houses testified to the city's agony, in which over 80 had died and more than 400 were wounded...
...latest political crisis. Though Buddhist marches and riots raged through Saigon all last week, Tri Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal to Thi despite his ouster. If Thi and Ky can come to terms, the Buddhists will be shorn of their main allies...
...Stomach. In Danang, Ky's strategy was simple but relentless. His 3,000 loyal troops-marines, airborne and Rangers-slowly drove the rebel force of 1,200 into an eight-block area centering on the east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset, neither side had any stomach for killing: most of the gunfire was purposely aimed high. Government tanks cleared street after street, carefully hosing them with .50-cal. machine-gun fire as they moved forward. Government spotter planes circled the rebel area, dropping leaflets that announced the appointment of General Huynh...
...Scared to Fight? Even in the rebellious I Corps area around Danang and Hue, the majority of the Vietnamese troops were still operating aggressively and effectively. Though the 1st Division-loyal to its dissident, dismissed commander, Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi-has all but stopped operations for the moment, the 2nd Division at Quang Ngai is fighting hard and well. Countrywide, the Vietnamese have increased their weekly number of battalion-size operations from 51 in January to 77 in the first week of May. Simultaneously, U.S. forces have mounted more small-unit and battalion-scale operations than ever before...
...Soldiers. Adding to the internal threat in the northeast is a community of some 40,000 to 60,000 Vietnamese who are refugees from the French Indo-China war and almost totally loyal to Ho Chi Minh. With their own cadres, schools and tight internal organizations, and their