Word: quan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiggle Watching. Hanoi was not sure that Lodge would be any more pliable than Averell Harriman-or any less. Reacting with scorn, North Viet Nam's army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan broke out in doggerel: "Which of the two has the more weathered skin,/ The man going out or the man coming in?" To Quan Doi, Lodge is "doomed to follow in the footsteps/Of Nixon the elephant/And feed on his leavings...
...much left of them-buzzards and dogs, I suppose. Some had been shot in the head and some hadn't. They had been buried alive, I think. There were sort of scratches in the sand in one place, as if someone had clawed his way out. At Quan Ta Ngan three Australian warrant officers saw seven men in one of three graves they found. The seven, I was told, had been shot one after the other, through the back of the head, hands tied...
During one amphibious operation off Nam Quan, Arnheiter-whose orders were to stay well at sea and cut off any Viet Cong "ex-filtration" by boat-commanded his officers to file false position reports and then took the Vance in close some 20 times to bombard the shore. On another occasion, Arnheiter brought the Vance within 250 yds. of the beach to blast a Buddhist pagoda that he suspected of being a Communist automatic-weapons position-and, according to the junior officers, avoided grounding only because Exec Hardy "relieved the skipper at the conn" and wheeled the ship to safety...
...interested. The visits can be deceiving: one kindergarten class began a quacking song for the benefit of a French tourist. As he recalls it, " 'How charming,' I thought, 'a song about ducks.' But then I learned they were singing something that sounded like quan quoat quai, which means, more or less, 'Ugly imperialists, go home...