Word: thuy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government mobilization would extend up to men aged 45, v. the present 33. Those 33 or younger would go into active military units; those 34 to 39 would be assigned to Regional and Popular (local) Forces or join those 40 to 45 in civilian defense units. Duong Van Thuy, chairman of the House Defense Committee, would also like to call up all single girls aged 18 to 25 to serve as hospital aides or armed forces secretaries, where they could, as Thuy put it, use their "soft hands and tender hearts to comfort our boys...
What They Can Do. Nothing can save Nguyen Phat Luom's right eye, destroyed by a grenade, but Boston doctors are building him a prosthetic hand, powered by muscles in his upper arm. Tran Van Lam, 13, will get artificial legs. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 7, has her left arm temporarily attached to her face so that its skin may provide her with new lips to replace those blown away. Nguyen Van Ba, 14, no longer has testes, but a bomb-blasted urethra has been repaired...
Died. Ngo Dinh Le Thuy, 22, petite, doe-eyed daughter of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of assassinated President Diem, who just before the 1963 coup accompanied her mother on that famous U.S. speaking tour during which she captured her own share of attention with her fetching ao-dai, later moved to Paris while Mme. Nhu set tled in Italy; of injuries in an auto collision; in Longjumeau, France...
...front. Still celebrated are the two Trung sisters who mounted elephants to lead a revolt against Chinese overlords in 40 A.D. More recently, Madame Nhu carried the banner in Saigon toward the end of the Diem regime and thought it only proper that her sloe-eyed daughter, Le Thuy, receive a pistol for her 18th birthday...
...structure by Secretary General Le Duan, a Peking-style hardliner. And last week, in a cabinet shuffle that had Ho-watchers from Washington to Moscow scratching their heads, the standing committee of the National Assembly met in extraordinary session to replace Ho's hand-picked Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy with another pro-Peking stalwart named Nguyen Duy Trinh. The assumption: Thuy had urged negotiations with the U.S. before American bombs could wipe out North Viet Nam's industries...