Word: quang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area. Rose, the father of two small daughters who live with their mother in Hong Kong, last month accompanied a South Viet Nam Cabinet Minister on a trip up the country's coastline from Saigon. The twin-engined C-47 had just taken off from the airstrip at Quang Ngai, 300 miles north of Saigon, when it crashed after engine failure. Forty-one persons aboard died, including the Cabinet Minister and Jerry Rose...
...themselves the Hué intellectuals are a small voice in Viet Nam, but 14 labor leaders sat in on their seminars, and the tone of their manifesto was strangely reminiscent of Thich Tri Quang, leader of Viet Nam's militant Buddhist mobs, who by coincidence was in Hué for a rally of his own. Taking no chances, Ky softened the draft. The army would exempt intellectuals holding "important" positions, announced Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and would give many others only a quick training course and return them to their desks-in uniform...
...QUANG GIAI...
...Viet Cong were clearly willing to fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north. Up in Quang Tin province, near Danang, a helilift of South Vietnamese paras, hoping to provoke a big battle, made contact with the Communists in a slough of serried hills, scuffled briefly but bloodily, then withdrew to regroup. The Viet Cong did not press their advantage, so the government troops waded in again. By week's end more than 300 Reds had been killed. Government losses were 34 dead-plus two U.S. Marine Corps advisers killed by ground fire...
...other Vietnam developments, both Russia and China talked of sending "volunteers" to fight in Vietnam in response to the latest raids on North Vietnam. U.S. and South Vietnamese planes hit again at Dong Hoi and Quang Khe, disabled another radar stations, and sank four enemy ships...