Word: phu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...APRIL 71 0400 HRS. CAI SON AGROVILLE, PHONG PHU VILLAGE, BINH DINH DISTRICT. VC ATTACKED RECEPTION CENTER OF REFUGEES FROM CAMBODIA. KILLING 3 CADRES. 4 ARVN. WOUNDING 3 CADRES AND 10 REFUGEES...
...stark contrast to Thanh Tay, Phu Loc is a model return-to-village project. Its 200 families came back last April after spending several years as unregistered refugees. In earlier times, Phu Loc was a prosperous hamlet of brick houses on some of Quang Nam's richest river land. Besides raising rice and corn, the farmers had their lucrative silk industry...
...houses of Phu Loc are made of artillery crates laid out in rigidly straight lines and bunched together for security. In 1965, the area was completely burned by American bombs because the land was too rich to leave to the Communists. Today not a single tree or bamboo shoot grows there. Asked what he missed most from earlier times, the village chief replied: "The jackfruit trees and the bamboo. They gave us wood, fruit and shade. Now it will take at least five years for the trees to grow back...
Nonetheless, the people of Phu Loc are better off than most of their former neighbors; it will take years and perhaps decades to bring back all of Quang Nam's refugees. Even then, one wonders about the people. Squatting in their refugee camps with little gainful employment, thrown into an urban environment they can hardly understand or cope with, many have lost their grip on their traditions and values. The land will mend, but what of the social fabric? In some places it is already tattered beyond repair, and the longer those millions of refugees stay cooped...
Viewing the campsite, Washington Post columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman said, "It kind of looks like Dien Bien Phu...