Word: nang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparison of a map from 1965, when the Marines (the first U.S. units sent to Viet Nam for combat) landed at Da Nang, with a map of Indochina to day reveals the Communist advances...
Then the Americans entered Vietnam in force and dramatically altered the NLF calculations. American Marines flooded ashore at Da Nang and U.S. warplanes aimed northward, freezing the political situation temporarily. By endorsing Thieu and Ky, the generals then in power in Saigon, and pouring millions of dollars into the country, distorting the economy into a dependence on the American presence, the U.S. involvement forced a stalemate. In order to reduce the NLF's social base, the U.S. terror-bombed the countryside and herded the villagers into cities...
...WOMAN, My mane is Nang--, Xieng Khouang has been my families' home since the time of my ancestors... There was danger as the war came closer, like the sound of bombs or shells or the airplanes which constantly made a terrible noise in the sky and led me to be terribly, terribly afraid of dying. AT that time, our lives became like those of animals desperately trying to escape their hunters...
...first wave of refugees deluged the Saigon area yesterday as fighting in the Mekong Delta increased. Refugees also flocked to Hue--already so crowded that its university has suspended classes to make room for families--as many Hue inhabitants began fleeing toward Da Nang...
American advisers in Saigon reported that nearly 250,000 refugees from Quang Tri were trying to get to Hue and eventually Da Nang, which, according to American intelligence sources, faces Viet Cong terrorist attacks...