Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Criminal Investigation Division, the Army is considering an accusation of murder against a general officer. The brigadier general, who is currently serving a tour of duty in the Pentagon, has been accused by helicopter pilots and some of those who flew with him of murdering perhaps six Vietnamese in Quang Ngai province late in 1968. The officer in question, a West Point graduate, was an infantry brigade commander at the time; he was supposedly scouting the area in his Huey command helicopter when he did the shooting, taking potshots at Vietnamese peasants on the ground below. He has admitted...
...place, others in the right place but on the wrong people. Bureaucratic demands for a show of allied progress on the basis of "hamlet-evaluation systems" have sometimes encouraged officials to evacuate villages unnecessarily. In early April, 650 people were removed from a Viet Cong-controlled valley south of Quang Ngai city. A U.S. senior adviser subsequently charged that the real motive behind the exercise was not a military need but a desire to eliminate the "V"-rated (Viet Cong-controlled) hamlets and thus improve the overall rating of Quang Ngai province...
...most of South Viet Nam's displaced population, rehabilitation is years away, but a few have gone home already under the government's "return to village" project. TIME Correspondent Jonathan Larsen visited two settlements in Quang Nam province last week. His report...
...landscape has become one of the major battlefields of the longest war in American history. The mountain jungles have been cratered and burned and sprayed; the woodcutters and hunters have fled. The farmers have been driven east, their villages leveled and their fields scorched and abandoned. The people of Quang Nam province, once scattered like seed across the land, are now huddled together along the shoulders of new cement roads in huts made from U.S. artillery crates...
...stark contrast to Thanh Tay, Phu Loc is a model return-to-village project. Its 200 families came back last April after spending several years as unregistered refugees. In earlier times, Phu Loc was a prosperous hamlet of brick houses on some of Quang Nam's richest river land. Besides raising rice and corn, the farmers had their lucrative silk industry...