Word: robber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veterans. Even the South Vietnamese army men have ambivalent feelings about their former comrades in arms. "Their cause is just, but their action is wrong," says one army colonel. "The image of the disabled hero has faded away and has been replaced by the picture of a pirate or robber." Still, unless Thieu can cope with the wounded veterans, their discontent will only fuel the tense climate in Saigon and the other major cities...
...matrons meet and mingle-strangers in the night who may, with a little bit of luck, become intimates for the night. Mine host, Boniface, has given his name to the language and, with a certain conjugal felicity that has persisted over the centuries, combines the roles of innkeeper and robber...