Word: thies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes even as tactical consultants. Frequently a soldier's wife, on the advice of her astrologer, will tell her husband when to go into battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops...
...most of the capital's jewelry, clothing and tailoring shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs the Nam Do bank and runs the Park Hotel, where U.S. military briefings are held. Huynh Thi Nga, 25, runs the family-owned Saigon Motors, and is an expert mechanic...
Western journalists usually knock in vain at that door with its peephole at 2 Rue Leverrier, a short walk from the house where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court. Bo entertains other visitors, however, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping pungent tea. His handsome wife, Pham Thi Ky, 43 (no kin to Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from...
...Thursday, Long said, he received a call from Nguyen Chanh Thi, a former Vietnamese general who was pushed out of the military by the then Premier, Ky, in 1966 and who now resides in Washington. Long said that Thi praised him for what he was doing, but asked him to delete a sentence reading "A lasting peace for Vietnam should be based upon a total withdrawal of foreign troops that will allow us, Vietnamese, to shape our future free from all foreign interference...
...Thi, reached in Washington this week, admitted to speaking with Long on the phone that Thursday but denied asking Long to delete anything from the petition...