Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front last week, Vietnamese troops strengthened their hold over the Cambodian salient known, because of its shape, as the Parrot's Beak. Rolling across the border into the beak with captured American armor, artillery, air support*-and tactics-General Vo Nguyen Giap's 60,000-man force easily shattered Khmer Rouge defenders. Although Hanoi acknowledged that Cambodian forces had launched a broad counterattack into seven Vietnamese provinces, General Giap's forces were believed to be still in control of key border sectors and were securing their military victory through the formation of a provisional government composed...
Thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there...
...this episode that finally prompted Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to go all out in retaliation. No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge of the campaign. Characteristically, Giap planned slowly; he devoted a full two months to studying the terrain and the situation...
Small Cache. Three weeks ago, Nguyen, his family and six other people made an audacious getaway from Danang in broad daylight. Pretending to start out on a lazy, late-afternoon pleasure excursion, they headed for the Philippines. They took with them a small cache of weapons accumulated during the war; the refugees intended to fight it out, if necessary, with Communist patrols that capture eight out of every ten escape boats...
...from Macao gave the refugees water and guided them into Hong Kong, where, by a stroke of luck, they passed unnoticed by harbor police. Once inside Hong Kong last week, the group immediately went to the authorities and turned in their arms. While the U.N. pays their living expenses, Nguyen and his family are hoping to be accepted...