Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than when in trouble on the battlefield. Unfortunately, May 2 was a day on which Le Duc Tho was confident he had the upper hand. Quang Tri had fallen the day before. Pleiku was in peril. An Loc was now surrounded. For all Le Duc Tho knew, a complete South Vietnamese collapse was imminent...
...local village militia take the brunt of the initial attack. An estimated three to five regular divisions (at least 30,000 troops) were held back. They were apparently arrayed in a crescent-shaped defense line that stretched from Yen Bai on the Red River in the west to Quang Yen on the east coast. Their mission: to defend the coastal plain surrounding Hanoi and Haiphong, and wait for the Chinese to show their hand...
...rice paddies. Camouflaged antiaircraft guns poked up their snouts on the perimeter of the landing field, where two huge Soviet An-22 transport planes rested. But on the ground, all the reminders of that painful land war in Southeast Asia were washed away in atmospherics of amiability. Said Tran Quang Co, head of the North American section of Viet Nam's foreign ministry, prior to a welcoming banquet for the American visitors: "We hope that we can move to a new stage in relations between our two peoples...
...Quang Duc, who was aged 73 at the time (June...
...much of its army is tied down battling a onetime ally: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, who are trying to annex Vietnamese districts contiguous to Cambodia in order to regain control over the tens of thousands of Cambodians who fled the new Phnom-Penh regime. Viet Nam's Quang Due province has been repeatedly attacked by the Khmer Rouge, while Hanoi's forces have made counterthrusts into Cambodia's Svay Rieng. Neither government seems to have clear control of Chau Doc province...