Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kontum in the Central Highlands, the untested ARVN 23rd Division routed the 1,000 to 2,000 North Vietnamese troops that tried to infiltrate the town. At Hué, General Ngo Quang Truong, the new regional commander, sent elements of the 1st ARVN Division and the South Vietnamese marines on spoiling actions against enemy units southwest and north of the city. To the north, a force of 2,000 marines were pushing into Communist-controlled Quang Tri province, though they were encountering heavy opposition twelve miles south of Quang Tri city...
...command also said an OH6 observation helicopter went down Saturday eight mile's northeast of Quang Tri with one U.S. flier wounded...
SAIGON--South Vietnamese paratroopers battled communist troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri yesterday and other clashes broke out along the western flask of the northern counteroffensive...
Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the far north that paratroopers spearheading the five-day-old counteroffensive were in contact all day within three miles of Hanoi-held Quang Tri, capital of the province of the same name...
...biggest crush came in Danang, which swelled to nearly twice its normal population of 400,000 with refugees from the northern provinces after the fall of Quang Tri May 1. Fragments of families fill schools, pagodas, churches and old U.S. military barracks. Though the government distributes rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...