Word: thonged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly had the convoy left the Premier's office, a few blocks from the U.S. embassy on Thong Nhut Boulevard, when bedlam broke out. A man wearing a Vietnamese Ranger uniform and carrying a pistol rushed up and opened fire on a traffic cop who was clearing the way for the convoy. A cyclo, one of Saigon's three-wheeled open taxis, suddenly materialized in the middle of the street. Two of the police Jeeps pulled up alongside the Premier's limousine as wild firing broke out; the convoy sped around the cyclo and away from...
...does. Salvaje picks off the ranch's hired hands one by one. Varner at last realizes that the only way around fate is through it and goes out into the woods to confront his pursuer. The stalker becomes the stalked, the suspense winds as taut as a leather thong, and the violent conclusion is as inevitable as moonset and death...
...unreality to some of his pronouncements. He has left much of the country's day-to-day administration to Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, a onetime schoolteacher widely respected for his political acumen and his honesty. Huong moved into the Prime Minister's office at No. 7 Thong Nhut (Unity Street) eleven weeks ago, with the warning that corruption, a problem frequently discussed but little acted on in the past, would be a major target of his administration. "What I want to do is eradicate the big fish," he says...
...political insight but some sharp feminine glimpses of enemy territory-and of Mary McCarthy herself. She likes her little comforts. "To my stupefaction," she writes, "there was hot water, plenty of it. . . At the Continental in Saigon, there was only cold water." Amid "other luxuries I found at the Thong Nhat Hotel were sheets of toilet paper laid out on a box in a fan-pattern." Since she was served "little cups of tea" almost everywhere she went, she wondered why she got tea at the War Crimes Museum but beer at the War Crimes Commission. "Perhaps I should have...
...prize catch was 45-year-old Thong Jamsri, a Peking-trained Vietnamese who was chief organizer of the guerrilla movement. Among the others: the guerrillas' chief quartermaster and contact man who kept them supplied with food, money and other necessities, the head of the execution squad that picked village elders or other local leaders for assassination, a Defense Ministry official who moonlighted as a Communist intelligence agent and indoctrinator, and two renegade policemen...