Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they seemed to believe that a coup would only further lessen public confidence in the government. But the conservative opposition argued that South Viet Nam now needs a strong, broadly representative, anti-Communist movement while reorganizing the army to defend a smaller perimeter around Saigon and part of the rice-rich Mekong Delta. "The present atmosphere of panic is like China in 1949," said one of the country's most respected political leaders. "We can no longer count on the American forces, and we must act quickly to save ourselves...
...streets, out of the makeshift sidewalk shelters and shanties. They moved into all of Danang's 100 schools (8,000 packed into a single high school) and, with no direction from government authorities, quickly organized leadership committees, nominating a senior person in every classroom. Though some emergency rice arrived from volunteer relief groups, the refugees' survival was largely in their own hands. Somehow it worked - for a while...
...hulks of former U.S. Army officers' clubs, a series of garages the size of airplane hangars that was once the property of the U.S. Corps of Engineers. There was no evidence of help from the government anywhere. Not a single Vietnamese official appeared, not a single bag of rice was delivered. Not even the police, who are usually concerned about Viet Cong infiltration into refugee caravans, bothered to show up. The National Assemblymen and local elected leaders, worried by stories that the North Vietnamese were killing civil servants in the towns they occupied, were busy saving themselves and their...
...most intense insurgent pressure remains concentrated against besieged Phnom-Penh. With the Mekong River lifeline choked off, the capital is now solely dependent on the U.S. "rice birds"- DC-8s and C-130s whose pilots brave Khmer Rouge rockets to ferry in food, fuel and ammunition. Money for the airlift will be exhausted by the end of April unless the U.S. Congress, when it reconvenes April 7, surprises everybody and approves a $222 million supplemental Cambodian aid appropriation. Last week the strategically important town of Tuol Leap, only six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport...
...government the people blamed. It was the Americans. No longer did those benevolent trucks show up loaded with bags of rice stamped "U.S.A.," nor were there the blankets or all those well-armed G.I.s waving and smiling to the children. Two of us got out of a Jeep with a camera and a note pad, looked around and asked a few questions. The Vietnamese used to tolerate the attention of these little inspection trips because they anticipated that, invariably, it would bring them something better. Now they know it will bring them nothing but a few muttered apologies, and they...