Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...late afternoon in Saigon when Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 49, set out for an important session of South Viet Nam's Constituent Assembly. His green, 1955 Hillman was parked under a tall tamarind tree, and he backed it off the sidewalk onto the street. "I heard a dragging noise when I first started to back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs...
Then Ky, for good measure, shifted some senior officers, notably flamboyant Lieut. General Dang Van Quang. Quang had headed the IV Corps area in the Mekong Delta, where the Viet Cong are still thriving and where no U.S. troops yet operate. Quang had resisted sharing the Delta war with the Allies, so his removal might prepare the way for the U.S..to make a major move into the Delta...
...first northern division to infiltrate across the narrow Demilitarized Zone-and, thanks to quick Marine action, the first northern division to be driven back across the border of the DMZ. In the beginning, according to U.S. intelligence reports, the Communists planned an outright invasion of the border province of Quang Tri. But the aggressive probing of Operations Hastings and Prairie has apparently thrown Hanoi's timing off. In the past month, more and more Marines have been shifted northward to the immediate area of the DMZ; last week, U.S. strength in the far north was beefed...
...Viet party, and a new "Movement for the Renaissance of the South." Should Van succeed, he will have the largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising Sun" party are trying to fuse worker and peasant sentiment in support of his American-backed land-reform and free-unionism platform. And South Viet Nam's ethnic minorities-Montagnards, Chinese, Cambodians-were attempting to forge an 18-seat coalition...