Word: quang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northerners' progress was weirdly effortless. They rolled across the Central Highlands. There the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) collapsed in headlong panic. The ARVN soldiers fought bravely elsewhere, notably around Xuan Loc, but the Communists drove steadily south. They overwhelmed all the place-names that had become so improbably familiar: Quang Tri, Hue, Danang, Kontum, Pleiku, Nha Trang...
...Communists hit in a hundred places, from Quang Tri near the DMZ in the north all the way to Duong Dong on the tiny island of Phu Quoc off the Delta coast some 500 miles to the south. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting...
...Thang Long bridge across the Red River is a strand of spanless girders; a much publicized Soviet highway from Savannakhet, in Laos, to Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...
James Altschul '81, the principal organizer of the forum, said yesterday that he was unaware of the Vietnamese letter. adding that only one refugee. Tran Quang...
...FALL issue of the Playboy Guide to Electronic Entertainment, some pop stars were asked what albums they had been listening to lately. While most listed mainstream stuff like Pink Floyd and the Police, David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, mentioned "Vietnam Music Instrumental Popular Songs" by Tran Quang Hai and Bach Yin, "Ethiopian Polyphony and Vocal Techniques" and "The Popular Music of North Africa" (on Vogue Records in case the Coop is out of it and you have to order...