Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that must precede any successful offensive. "If you can destroy the people who are preparing the battlefield, then the guys on the border can't get there," explained a U.S. general. Thus, last week three regiments of the 1st Marine Division ended a three-week cordon operation in Quang Nam province south of Danang that stripped the area as a staging ground. They moved all 2,650 civilians out of the village of Thanh Phong, then encircled and hunted down infiltrators from a regiment of North Vietnamese regulars. The bag from Operation Meade River: 1,050 enemy dead...
...resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence estimates that the Communists have only one regiment in or around the Demilitarized Zone and barely two in the two northernmost provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien, where 15 of their regiments roamed last February. Altogether, the Communists are believed to have, pulled a quarter to a third of their 120,000 main-force troops out of South Viet Nam into North Viet Nam and the Cambodian and Laotian sanctuaries. It is still...
...battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp...
...refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Ky's militant allies; on the other, powerful neutralists like Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. In this situation, Thieu cannot afford to countenance the N.L.F.'s claim to speak for all the people of South Viet...
Danang was infiltrated briefly three weeks ago, but the real enemy interest seems to be elsewhere. Farther south in I Corps, the U.S. Americal and the South Vietnamese 2nd Divisions pushed west of Quang Ngai city last week to try to forestall an anticipated attack on that provincial capital. The entire North Vietnamese 3rd Division is believed to have moved north from II Corps into Quang Ngai, a historic Communist stronghold where the Viet Cong might attempt to set up a provisional government if they could win control of the city even temporarily. If that move succeeded, its propaganda value...