Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack on Ban Me Thuot was only part of a coordinated upsurge of military activity in South Viet Nam. In Quang Tri province in the extreme north of the country, assaults on district towns forced some 20,000 people to seek shelter in the old imperial capital of Hué, which was already crammed with war refugees from other embattled areas in Military Region I. South of Ban Me Thuot along Route 14, the Communists captured the district capital of Duc Lap and three base camps, thereby threatening Quang Duc province and its capital of Gia Nghia. Still farther south...
Since the signing of the cease-fire agreement ten months ago, by Saigon's count more than 50,000 North and South Vietnamese have been killed in a series of small but bloody skirmishes. In the Central Highlands province of Quang Due, bordering on Cambodia, outnumbered and outgunned Saigon troops are currently locked in a bitter struggle to retake key outposts lost to North Vietnamese units earlier this month. A deadly war of attrition continues in the soggy green Mekong Delta, where the rice is ready for harvest. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott visited both combat zones last week...
...Welcome to Quang Due, the most remote place on earth," says the briefing officer. A quick 40-minute hop from Saigon in a C-130 transport, it is hardly that. But the filmy gray clouds wafting across the silent blue hills and the weathered faces of Montagnard tribesmen staggering along the airstrip with their worldly goods on their backs certainly convey a sense of primitive isolation...
After the meeting everyone adjourned to march around Massachusetts Hall. It was exciting. A group of people were playing bongo drums and chanting slogans--"Quang Tri! An Loc! Do the same to Derek Bok!" was the most memorable slogan to come out on the strike--and the occupiers were shouting speeches from the windows. "This is really very exciting," I said to one of the people marching in front of me. "Yes," he agreed, "but I'd still rather be making it with someone." I didn't fully appreciate that exchange 'til I had more of a standard of comparison...
Surveying the scene, a South Vietnamese general simply shrugged. "I suppose we ought to turn Quang Tri into a tourist attraction. Maybe we could sell bricks from the citadel at $2 apiece...