Word: tong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese government outpost near the Cambodian border, Tong Le Chan, some 400 ARVN troops were surrounded by an entire Communist regiment, and large-scale fighting there seemed to be imminent. Some intelligence experts predict a general surge of Communist military activity later this month...
...besieged by North Vietnamese regiments. But the Polish and Hungarian members of the commission refused to investigate, arguing that they might get hurt in the battle. The Saigon government was obliged to send a 1,000-man task force to relieve the troops at Rach Bap. The second base, Tong Le Chan, remained surrounded...
...Francisco. Opium dens, brothels, gambling parlors, Shanghai saloons and gangs flourished by dint of maximum bribes to police and minimum legal scrutiny. Civic morality occasionally counterattacked the Barbary Coast and its adjunct, Chinatown; in 1875 authorities formed an elite corps of policemen to check Chinatown's bloody tong wars...
...Chinatown detail's first action -against the secret protection societies whose Mafia-like gang wars had terrorized Chinatown-was in the style of the times. The cops descended on tong headquarters with axes and smashed everything in sight. The subsidence of the tong wars was due less to the squad's enforcement than to battle attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations...