Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five months after they managed-with U.S. airpower-to stall the Communists' Easter offensive, they have not yet mounted a successful counteroffensive or recaptured Quang Tri city or any other significant part of the northern province that fell in April and May. They have not reopened Highway 13 between Saigon and An Loc, and the task was finally abandoned altogether last week as the two divisions assigned to it were regrouped in an effort to head off Communist units that are believed to be moving toward Saigon. The North Vietnamese are still staging ambushes on the road between Kontum...
This is the Viet Nam book for people who do not want to read about Viet Nam-the lip-service hawks and doves who don't know Quang Tri from An Giang and don't care how the war ends as long as it is soon. Fire in the Lake is about the nature of the Vietnamese character and its encounter with the West. In one form or other, scholars, journalists and Government officials have said most of what Frances FitzGerald has to say. But she may succeed better than they simply because she delves into culture, history...
Thieu-Teared. One of the latest approaches is a U.S. proposal for a "two-tier" government for South Viet Nam. One Saigon government would control the non-Communist portion of the South and another would run the Communist-held parts-perhaps including all or most of Quang Tri and Binh Dinh provinces and a slice of Military Region II along the Laotian border...
...foreign press is against us. The press is the agent of the Viet Cong, so don't be surprised at what happens to you newsmen here." A few days later, South Vietnamese troops fired over the head of a correspondent who sought to cover them in action at Quang Tri, driving him back...
...Correspondent Bob Jones does not necessarily subscribe to Browne's theory, but he has little faith in directions offered by the South Vietnamese. Camped with a camera crew outside Quang Tri city in an effort to get film of soldiers raising the South Vietnamese flag over the city's citadel, Jones asked how to get to the citadel. "Just walk across that field," said the officer, "and someone will show you the way." Jones noted that not only was the field under intense enemy fire but also that his crew would have to swim a moat and scale...