Word: phong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there," explained a U.S. general. Thus, last week three regiments of the 1st Marine Division ended a three-week cordon operation in Quang Nam province south of Danang that stripped the area as a staging ground. They moved all 2,650 civilians out of the village of Thanh Phong, then encircled and hunted down infiltrators from a regiment of North Vietnamese regulars. The bag from Operation Meade River: 1,050 enemy dead v. 107 allied losses. Other units throughout South Viet Nam were engaged in similar operations, beating the woods and fields for bunkers, arms caches and stores of food...
Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's observer at the talks up to now and a former Foreign Minister (1964-65), will head the official group. The other members include: Nguyen Xuan Phong, like Lam a Southerner and former Minister With out Portfolio under Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor...
...government's burden. The Assembly, a hawkish group of men mostly from a middle class that stands to lose more from peace than the war-weary peasantry, distrusts Huong. Assembly members consider him soft on the issue of negotiations with the Communists. A Lower House deputy, Tran Quy Phong, recently threatened that "if Huong's government seeks a compromise with the Communists, it will be overthrown by the people." Inflationary pressure has mounted. Since Tet, the government has issued a billion piasters ($8,500,000) in new currency each week. Foodstuffs and consumer goods are not so readily...
...only just beginning. The schools will reopen within a month. CORDS officials are trying to organize commercial convoys-fleets of trucks guarded by military vehicles-over the enemy-interdicted roads. Some 70% of the R.D. workers have returned to their posts but, in some provinces, such as Kien Giang, Phong Dinh and Kien Phong, there is no chance of a return. The Viet Cong pressure is just too heavy...
...Saigon government put up the buildings, but when the Viet Cong burned them down, the local people were indifferent. Now it is common for Saigon to provide the cement and aluminum roofing and let the residents do the work. That way, notes Ho Van Chieu, primary education chief for Phong Dinh province, "the V.C. are afraid to burn them down for fear of infuriating the people who built them...