Word: tannings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tomorrow I will offer my youth to the revolution," wrote Luong Trong Tan of the 320th North Vietnamese Division shortly before he was killed. "Tomorrow our country will be unified and I will enjoy a peaceful spring...How I detest...
Fired. The Saigon regime, however, evened the score. It billeted the Communist delegates in a remote, closely guarded corner of Tan Son Nhut Air Base; one Polish delegate to the ICCS complained that "it's like a concentration camp out there." Presumably as another way of showing contempt for the commission, the South Vietnamese government appointed as its delegate one General Ngo Dzu, who was fired last year for military incompetence and has been accused of corruption. Nonetheless, the four members did eventually meet to discuss the rate of American withdrawal and arrangements for prisoner exchanges. The commission...
...last remaining G.I.s in South Viet Nam, Camp Alpha is where it all ends. Tucked away in an obscure corner of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Camp Alpha is a depressing, dehumanizing collection of waiting rooms and barracks, offices and endless queues, where exiting American soldiers are assigned before boarding a plane bound for the U.S. and home...
...cover: South Vietnamese woman holding flags in preparation for truce; Le Due Tho and Kissinger after initialing in Paris; U.S. airman tossing helmet at Tan Son Nhut airfield, South Viet Nam, after cease-fire news; P.O.W. wife Margaret Lengyel...
Even before the cease-fire began, the effects of the Paris agreement were beginning to show up at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Among the first Americans to board homeward-bound planes were 110 civilians who had been training South Vietnamese police; before long, all U.S. civilian employees involved in military tasks will be withdrawn, leaving behind a fluctuating population of some 1,800 U.S. civilians serving as advisers in such fields as education and land reform, or as technicians working under contract for private firms and agencies. Saigon's uniformed allies were ready to pull...