Word: phuong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last comment would not always have seemed snide. Fifteen years ago, the criticism in the following passage from The Quiet American, a novel many people feel prefigures the whole of the U.S.'s senseless devastation of Vietnam, would not have seemed painful. A Vietnamese woman named Phuong asks the British reporter, 'Are there skyscrapers in London...
...Phuong, that's American too,' he responds...
...believe that the sacrifice of U.S. dead and wounded would be in vain unless Congress voted new military aid to Viet Nam. Many Vietnamese and foreign observers were quick to blame the U.S. for the plight of South Viet Nam. Saigon's ambassador to Washington, Tran Kim Phuong, stated that it is "probably safer to be an ally of the Communists." In a wild-eyed broadside in the New York Times, Sir Robert Thompson, consultant on guerrilla warfare to President Nixon, argued that "a new foreign policy line has already been laid down by Congress: if you surrender...
...Oval Office, Ford handled U.S. foreign relations with more assurance and subtlety than many observers at home and abroad had expected. He held White House talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and South Viet Nam's Ambassador Tran Kim Phuong; all left-considerably reassured about the depth of the new Administration's commitment to promises made earlier by Richard Nixon...
Polite Threats. Mme. Phuong did not give way easily. "She threatened me in a polite way," said Castle. "She said she had several general officer friends and she would go see them." Castle began to receive anonymous telephone threats. Eventually, the colonel was wounded in a Viet Cong attack on his depot and sent home...