Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebuild the old French Route 9 as they went, and they stopped frequently to set up protective fire bases and send out patrols for as much as six miles to the north and south to guard their flanks. Their vital link to South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province-a force of some 600 U.S. helicopters-was repeatedly socked in by bad weather...
...food source. Most of the crop destruction has been in the Central Highlands, where the population is largely Montagnard tribesmen, an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The crop spraying has a catastrophic impact on the Montagnard people; the story that follows tells of the Song Re valley in Quang Nai province, a highland valley Meselson's group looked at closely...
...Green Beret field manual, Department of Defense publications on the Montagnards, and Saigon officials all told the HAC that the Montagnards of Quang Ngai have a long history of rice growing on terraced fields...
Last week the forbidding ruins, relics of an earlier and rougher stage in the war, were abruptly jolted from their silence. From jumping-off points 50 miles away, long columns of tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers ground into the rugged western reaches of Quang Tri province, raising towering columns of dust. Overhead, gunships darted around in search of enemy troops. Giant Chinook helicopters flapped into long-abandoned bases, depositing men and massive earth-moving machines. At Lang Vei, a halftrack pulled up loaded with expectant-looking G.I.s. One soldier had a single word painted on his helmet: "Laos...
...important change. While broadening their own demands, they also threw their weight behind other oppressed groups in South Vietnam: a pathetic mass of war veterans, who burst upon the Saigon scene to protest bitterly about the government's refusal to help them find housing and jobs; the An Quang Buddhists, who tried launching a nation-wide peace campaign at the end of May; and some 100,000 striking workers, who demonstrated during the month of June...