Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town crier of Quang Tri strolled through the streets of South Viet Nam's northernmost provincial capital and shouted his message through a mega phone hammered from old U.S. beer cans: "I would like to tell the people that the candidates for the presidential elections will be here to talk...
...Quang has warned Thieu and Ky that, in his judgment, their actions have been worse than Diem's. He has even threatened to renew his campaign of "nonviolent opposition"-which in Tri Quang's lexicon means anything from mobs of rock-throwing youths in Saigon streets to a full-scale attempt at a coup d'état. But Thieu and Ky are confident that they have the dissident monk under control. "My duty," says Ky bluntly, "is to crush all disturbances of whatever origin...
South Viet Nam's presidential election campaign formally opens this week, and most of the eleven candidates are taking to the air with prerecorded campaign speeches. At week's end the candidates will collect at Quang Tri, less than 20 miles from the Demilitarized Zone, to begin a series of public meetings that will end in Saigon Sept. 1, two days before the voting. There will be an amount of togetherness unheard of in most political campaigns. The South Vietnamese have planned the campaign so that all candidates will have the opportunity to speak on the same...
...Central Highlands. In a rocket onslaught on the huge air base at Danang, they killed eight men and did about $80 million worth of damage to U.S. planes. And, in a guerrilla-style raid that they have honed to near perfection, they swarmed over the provincial prison camp in Quang Nam province and released 1,220 prisoners, most of them Viet Cong suspects...
Just a few minutes earlier and 20 miles to the south, Viet Cong platoons had blasted their way into the Quang Nam jail with satchel charges. They killed the superintendent and wounded five of his men before fading back into the jungle with the freed prisoners, of whom 190 were later recaptured. While launching their attacks at main targets, the Communists did not neglect their campaign of terror and harassment against South Vietnamese villages and hamlets. A Viet Cong force overran the coastal hamlet of Guan Co, also near Danang, just before dawn, inflicted heavy casualties on the little Vietnamese...