Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pile," as Viet Nam's latest big battleground has come to be called, is weirdly unique. There, just south of the inaccurately named Demilitarized Zone, a task force of six Marine battalions has been battling two entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars whose apparent aim is to invade Quang Tri province. So far the Reds have failed. Over the past few months, Hanoi's hordes have shifted away from their old infiltration route, the Ho Chi Minh trail, which empties into the isolated Central Highlands. Instead, more and more have been striking directly southward into the populous coastal...
...though none is a known representative of the militant Vien Hoa Dao group that tried to overthrow the government last spring), and fully 30 are Catholics, who make up only 10% of the population. That was enough to end the 100-day fast of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. From his quarters in a Saigon maternity clinic, Tri Quang promptly labeled the election a fraud. Then he ate a banana...
...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...
...getting mighty hard to tell the new craters from the old," remarked a pilot returning from the battered Panhandle. Cratered anew were the Quang Khe missile complex, the Due Tho storage area, and a spread of staging areas, oil dumps and antiaircraft sites. Though flak has thinned considerably in the region, two U.S. planes were shot down. As one pilot's parachute was buffeted by tricky wind currents, his anxious wingman radioed to ask him how he was doing. "Swinging, man," came the reply...
...what is clearly required is American manpower and gunpower. As a result, U.S. military commanders have been giving increasing attention to the need for U.S. troops in what has been the exclusive war of the Delta's IV Corps commander, Lieut. General Dang Van Quang...