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Word: nguyens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu emphatically insisted. The Laotian invasion, Lam Son 719, had not ended in "defeat, disorder, disaster." Sitting on some ammunition boxes among the pine trees of the cemetery at Dong Ha, an ARVN base seven miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Thieu told newsmen and South Vietnamese troops that Laos was, in fact, "the biggest victory ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Wan Edge of an Abyss | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...took six days for General Hoang Xuan Lam, the ARVN commander, to get around to establishing a forward command post inside Laos, where the troops, the B-52s and the other elements could be coordinated. What is more, Lam's staff was riven by jealousies. Major General Le Nguyen Khang, who bosses South Viet Nam's elite Marines and holds a slight seniority edge over Lam, was so miffed when Lam was named to run the Laos operation that he retired to Saigon and turned his responsibilities over to his deputy, a colonel. During the pullout from Laos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: What It Means For Vietnamization | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

South Vietnamese troops made yet another drive into Laos and destroyed 12 huts and a quantity of foodstuff and ammunition, according to Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien. The attack was disclosed Wednesday night by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon Orders Release of Calley; North Vietnamese Continue Attacks From Wire Dispatches | 4/2/1971 | See Source »

...will fight until I die or until all the North Vietnamese are driven back North," twenty-year-old Nguyen Chet, a support soldier in the 49th, Artillery Battalion, remarked, making certain others around would hear his words. Chet has not yet been to Laos...

Author: By Clement Mietus, | Title: 'Why Aren't the Americans Fighting With Us?' | 4/2/1971 | See Source »

There is blood on the hands of Dolph Droge, small functionary in the great war machine, and there is blood on the hands of Nguyen Hoan, smaller player in the cast of South Vietnam's belligerent charade of democracy. And there is Milton Sacks, who seems far from blood in the recesses of corporate scholarship, but who is the author of the "Leopard Spots" program, a plan for relocating peasants who have been forced from their homes in decentralized concentration camps. And there is blood on the hands of those more important, and blood on the hands of those less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Cause for Sadness | 3/30/1971 | See Source »

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