Word: tans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heng Soon Tan of Kirkalnd House and Memphis, Tennessee; Andrew A. Vernon of 20 Tierney Street and Atlanta, Georgia; William G. Viscusi of Leverett House and Louisville, Kentucky; Marc S. Visner of Quincy House and West Hartford, Connecticut; Michael A. Westerman of Kirkland House and New York City...
...Government has usually remained silent about the cancerous corruption that afflicts South Viet Nam today: the pilferage at the docks, the smuggling at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, and the large-scale theft and export of scrap metal. But Washington has reacted with anger and alarm to recent disclosures about the widespread use of heroin by American G.I.s (see THE NATION) and to charges that Vietnamese officials, high and low, are involved in the hard-drug traffic...
Died. Sean Lemass, 71, Prime Minister of the Irish Republic from 1959 to 1966; in Dublin. The protégé of Eamon de Valera, Lemass graduated to Parliament from the crucible of the Black and Tan conflict. At 16 he holed up with Irish Republican Army soldiers in Dublin's General Post Office during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Fifteen rebels were shot and thousands deported after British shells ended the uprising, but Lemass was released. According to Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home...
...APRIL 71 2300 HRS. TAN LONG HAMLET, NHON AN VILLAGE, AN NHON DISTRICT. UNKNOWN NO. VC (VIET CONG) INFILTRATED HAMLET, KILLED TWO CIV AND KIDNAPED THE HAMLET CHIEF AND HIS WIFE...
...duty Air Vietnam stewardess, Mrs. Nguyen Ngoc Quy expected to be waved through customs as usual when she stepped off her flight from Bangkok last month at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Instead, officials opened her baggage, revealing 19.8 lbs. of heroin and an ugly new quirk in American-South Vietnamese relations...