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Word: sampan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Viet Cong arms-carrying sampan is under air attack: go back two spaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOW TO PLAY THE GAME OF DEFECTION | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Viet Cong terrorists enter Saigon al most at will and control scores of villages in the province of Gia Dinh, which completely surrounds the city. Enemy troops and equipment move freely into the Saigon area along infiltration trails from the Mekong Delta to the south and by motorized sampan along the Saigon River from the north. Eight Viet Cong battalions operate within a radius of 25 miles of the capital, extorting food, supplies and money from fright ened merchants and others among greater Saigon's 2,200,000 population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Securing Saigon | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...Discovery Visits Hong Kong" for a look at a family on a sampan and rural life a few feet from the Chinese border. First of two parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 23, 1966 | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...could turn his suicidal impulse to good account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane and balloon. They survive shipwreck in a floating coffin, and even beat off an attack by a fleet of heavily armed Coca-Cola trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That Man in Hong Kong | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...troops entering captured Viet Cong camps have found entrenchments enforced with American steel plates, homemade mortars fashioned from U.S.-made steel pipe. Recently, a new metal-working lathe, imported under the AID plan, was found buried under manure aboard a Viet Cong sampan. Precious American antibiotics, on sale at hundreds of Saigon pharmacies legally stocked with U.S. medicine, are easily spirited out to Communist forces, often in loaves of French bread or hollowed-out cabbage heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Strayed AID | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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