Word: nang
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...switched in an instant. Omnipotence suddenly turns to helplessness, brutality to compassion. The details in these pages arrange themselves into a vivid collage: the painted yellow footprints on which brand-new Marine recruits are told to stand; the puce and canary Braniff jetliners that fly replacements to Da Nang as if it were a trip to Disney World; U.C.L.A. sweatshirts left behind by retreating Viet Cong; the exploding shoeshine box of an urchin-guerrilla; the contoured fiber-glass chairs that give a military morgue the look of a "futuristic barbership"; the computer printout that informs one veteran that...
...Southern marriage. The men in this seedy world dominate the women and think nothing of taking a fist to the source of their romantic troubles. They are full of guts and fighting nerve, the leathery types who jumped at the chance to wade through the rice paddies near Da Nang. Watching them at leisure makes them no more appealing...
Opening Day at Fenway Park, the kids were lined up hours before the gate opened, and by noon or one o'clock, the mood was starting to turn ugly. "Like refugees at Da Nang," a friend still mutters balefully...
...mother left without papers. She had a permanent visa because she worked with an international company, but after the fall of Da Nang all visas were declared illegal and everyone was forbidden to leave Vietnam. Those who could, however, did, regardless of papers. The situation was desperate because so many wanted to get out. Many people who should have gotten out didn't. I heard of someone who had worked for the CIA for ten years and he couldn't get out, but prostitutes and other people who didn't have to flee to save their lives got out because...
What the NLF and PRG will do after they take Saigon is as hard to judge as the current state of Da Nang and Hue--any judgment has to be based on NLF statement and past actions. The NLF has said repeatedly that it favors the ouster of Thieu and an immediate tripartite government in South Vietnam and continued North Vietnam control of be the North. That system, however seems likely to be only a temporary one what Vietnamese needs is a unified socialist strong based in cooperative rural communists where still liberties are preserved. There is nothing...