Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Booby Traps. Today the Communists' six divisions hold two-thirds of I Corps' land but control only about 15,000 of its 3.4 million people. Arrayed against the North Vietnamese are five South Vietnamese divisions. Contacts with the Communists in I Corps' two most battered provinces, Quang Tri and Thua Thien, have dropped sharply in recent months-from 1,200 in February to below...
barracks. By the end of the year the Saigon government hopes to resettle all the refugees. Recently, the first 24,000 moved into new wood-and-tin huts at seven villages near Hai Lang in Quang Tri province. With their teeming marketplaces, the new communities are virtually indistinguishable from villages elsewhere in Viet Nam. Yet U.S. officials wonder how these people will fare on the poor soil after their government supply of rice runs out in six months...
...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...
...neutral observers, its 42 local offices throughout South Viet Nam and its fleet of black-and-silver planes, has managed to complete investigations and file final reports on only six truce violations. At week's end, two helicopters carrying eleven ICCS members were reported missing in Northern Quang Tri province; one of the choppers was believed to have been hit by ground fire...
...corner was Saigon's Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam; in another stood Major General Le Quang Hoa, Hanoi's top man at the JMC, chatting amiably with Lieut. General Gilbert Woodward, his crusty American counterpart. "After the first 60 days of the cease-fire are over," Hoa told Woodward, "you must come to visit Hanoi." Woodward guffawed, then glowered at an eavesdropping journalist...