Word: thies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well filled. As a result, they are turning more and more to women to help the war effort. Backing up Victor Charlie-the G.I.s' name for the Viet Cong-are the female Victoria Charlenes, some of whom actually fight. The V.C.'s attractive, much-advertised heroine, Ta Thi Kieu, packs four rifles at a time and boasts that she has participated in 33 battles. The vast majority of the Victoria Charlenes perform the myriad tasks that are needed to aid a guerrilla army operating in a hostile countryside without modern systems of supply, transport or communications...
Time to Cry. Teacher Diep Thi Kim Khanh, a shy 22-year-old who was born near by, concedes that conditions are sometimes terrifying but, she says, "I cannot leave these children." She recalls the afternoon when shots burst out around the school, and Vietnamese soldiers from a nearby government fort rushed into the building to fire back through the windows at the Viet Cong. "The children began to cry and were very afraid," says Mme. Kim Khanh. "I was very afraid and on the point of crying myself." After a half-hour fight, the Reds disappeared...
...financed mainly by the U.S., Taiwan and Australia has supplied more than 10 million books to Vietnamese schools-to the considerable irritation of the V.C. One Communist woman in black pajamas appeared at a school in the hamlet of Thoi Binh, looked at the books and warned Teacher Tran Thi Tarn: "You must not teach these things." Despite the warning, Mme. Tam, a mother of eight, goes on with her work. Says she: "It is important that our children have knowledge-then perhaps they will have a better life than...
...sessions held at gunpoint, they told their captives that they were "killing thousands of Americans and winning many battles," and that "the American intruders are losing the war." Every hour the indoctrinator paused and asked if anyone wanted to contribute to the session. The peasants were stubborn, recalled Ho Thi Xien, a widow who was kidnaped along with her war-orphaned grandchildren, and "no one ever said anything." In choosing Long Vinh, the Viet Cong had picked badly. Though the area is 95% under Communist control, almost every young man in the village has joined the South Vietnamese army...
...shops, factories and farms as well. And thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...