Word: phuc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting the bridge out of use for the third time. Upriver, two spans of the Canal des Rapides bridge were sent sagging into the water, and two of Haiphong's main bridges were put out of use again. Bombs ripped up the oft-repaired runways of the Kep, Phuc Yen and Hoa Lac MIG bases...
...still located in the Saigon area. Some of the cabarets and dance halls will undoubtedly be permitted to keep their doors open. Some of the more than 100 houses of prostitution, now illegal, may even become legitimatized. If a bill proposed last week by Minister of Social Welfare Nguyen Phuc Que is passed by the Vietnamese Parliament, the government will open a special area for fun making on the outskirts of Saigon. All patrons, G.I. and Vietnamese alike, would pay an admission charge directly to the government, which would license all cabarets and girls. As Que conceives it, the proceeds...
Last week, in retaliation, the U.S. mounted the biggest air strike of the war against the most important of the two MIG bases that had not yet been bombed. Navy and Air Force jets rolled in five times to smash the base at Phuc Yen, northwest of Hanoi, turning the sky into a tapestry of fireballs. Later, Marine planes from Danang ventured farther north than they normally do to make an unusual night raid on Phuc Yen. The Communists filled in many of the bomb craters overnight, but U.S. planes were back the next day to chew out more...
...MIGs were out in force last week not only around Phuc Yen but above Hanoi and Haiphong, which took some of the heaviest bombing of the war. For five straight days, the whine of jets over Hanoi was almost monotonous. U.S. planes struck at a torpedo-boat base, an army barracks, storage depots, power plants, and two bridges over which supply trains from China funnel into Hanoi. Foreign seamen aboard ships anchored off Haiphong sat on the bridges with their feet on the railing watching duels between planes and ack-ack batteries...
Last week's raids left only five major targets of military value still unscathed. They were the Gia Lam airbase near Hanoi; the Phuc Yen airbase, 15 miles northeast of the capital; the railway terminal and power plant in Lao Cai, a North Vietnamese town that sits directly on the Chinese border; the piers at the auxiliary port of Hon Gai; and, of course, the docks at Haiphong. But unless the U.S.'s new choke-and-destroy air strategy is suddenly curtailed, all those objectives, except perhaps the Haiphong docks, are soon likely to feel the blast...