Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race. Later on, perhaps some time this summer, a third candidate is likely to emerge: popular but painfully hesitant Duong Van Minh. leader of the 1963 coup that toppled the Diem regime. Strong in Saigon, in Hue, in central Viet Nam and with the militant An Quang Buddhists. "Big Minh" has already staked out a position well to the left of Thieu; he has indicated that he would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving, Minh is expected to run much stronger than...
North Vietnamese gunners shelled Khe Sanh in South Vietnam's northwest corner for the fifth straight day, Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from Quang Tri. About 500 shells have been lobbed into the base this week...
Since the airfield came under regular shelling attacks, most of the helicopters.used to support the Laos operation have been flown to Dong Ha, Quang Tri, and other rear bases...
...Sanh had been abandoned since American Marines manned the base in 1968 during a 77-day siege. When the Laotian campaign began in early February the site was reopened as an important base. Three helicopters were damaged during the attack yesterday but were able to fly out safely to Quang...
THREE weeks after the attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun. South Viet Nam's rugged Quang Tri province, the chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself...