Word: tans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Close enough, it seemed, for some extraordinary political events to take place in Saigon. On Wednesday a group of leading anti-Communists met for tea at the officers' club at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Their host was Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant airman who was Prime Minister from 1965 to 1967. Among Ky's 30-odd guests were such prominent figures as Dr. Tran Van Do, former Foreign Minister and head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Geneva Convention of 1954, and Father Tran Huu Thanh, leader of the Catholic anticorruption movement that has sponsored several...
Teddy Kennedy took advantage of the congressional Easter recess to go back to Massachusetts and keep his fences well mended with the adoring home folks last week. His suits were uncharacteristically rumpled, his shoes unshined, his waistline bulging more than it did a few months ago. But he was tan, handsomely graying and in top political form. Meeting high school students, he did not lecture them but sounded out their opinions on national policy. At Grafton, a local policeman mumbled about Chappaquiddick and complained that Kennedy had swiped his Bic pen to sign autographs. But when he caught sight...
...decided that his brand, a rocking JC, will be stamped on silks of emerald and white - a Jewish cowboy, Jimmy loves the Irish. Even if he were not famous, he would catch every stooper's eye. "Dappled out" is racing talk for a fit horse. Lean and tan, Jimmy looks dappled out - ready to run the distance...
...Immigration official at Tan Son Nhut airport...
...probably Thua Thien provinces down to the coastal city of Danang. General Truong had already lost the backbone of his defense the week before when Thieu ordered 4,000 men of South Viet Nam's crack airborne division back to their original base headquarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Thieu felt it necessary to beef up the defense of the capital, just in case the Communists decided to concentrate their forces on Saigon itself. The transfer of the troops sent a shock wave through the streets of Hue. Without a government order...