Word: ngo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ngo Dish Long, publisher of a newspaper concerned with political developments in South Vietnam, will speak at Fox Memorial Library, on Mass Ave in Arlington. 8, May 18. Free...
...were South Viet Nam's best units. They included the 1st Division, a marine division and infantry units hastily brought up from the Mekong Delta and nearby Quang Ngai province. Thieu's biggest asset may be his new commander in the north, Lieut. General Ngo Quang Truong. Truong is regarded by Americans as ARVN's most effective field commander, and his first action was decisive enough. To stop the hemorrhage of ARVN troops through Hué, he ordered deserters shot on sight...
...been advanced as much by luck as by leadership. In his early years of political activism, he managed, like the young Nikita Khrushchev, to be absent during periods of party turmoil. Between 1954 and 1956, he began to organize political subversion against the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Le Duan was thus preoccupied with other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis led to the fall of the party's secretary...
...some 600 ARVN troops were dead or missing after the collapse. Said Captain Richard Cassidy, one of five advisers who survived the disaster: "Tan Canh fell because ARVN never got off its ass and fought." The word out of Saigon was that the regional commander, flamboyant Lieut. General Ngo Dzu, had suffered a "heart flutter," which seemed to indicate that he would be relieved shortly...
...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice and NPAC have called for a mass rally at 2:30 p.m. on the Boston Common. Among the scheduled speakers are Howard Zinn, Ngo Vinh Long and Bonnie Raitt. And on May 8, the PCPJ is sponsoring a day of nonviolent civil disobedience at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Downtown Boston. The day begins at 6:30 a.m. on the Commons; participants will then move to the JFK Building which houses, among other agencies, the local offices of the State Department, the FBI, the IRS, the Wage Freeze Board...