Word: trang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembly point faced the statue of Viet Nam's 6th century naval hero, Trang Hung Dao. A landing zone had been prepared atop the building. But the South Vietnamese navy had placed 50-cal. machine guns on top of the building next door, posing a threat to the departing Americans. Picking up our gear, we trooped on to another assembly point...
...There is also the grim possibility that South Vietnamese forces will turn their guns on Tan Son Nhut, Newport, or even the American embassy's small rooftop heli copter pad if the Americans make a move to evacuate. Given the anti-Americanism that flared in Danang and Nha Trang before they fell, it is hard to say who might pose the greater threat-Communist enemy or South Vietnamese friend...
Madame Bui Huu Khiem, owner of La Fregate, the best hotel in Nha Trang, with a brand-new $100,000 air-conditioned wing, quickly made her own plans. A 1954 refugee from the North, she turned the hotel over to the Red Cross and prepared to leave on an American flight the next day. "If the V.C. take over, all the people here would point me out as a rich woman and I would get shot," she said fatalistically. "If they don't, then our soldiers who have guns but no commanders might do it. When they get hungry, they...
...thirds of its men had been killed or injured. Early in the week the outgunned and outnumbered division gave way, leaving open the route to Qui Nhon, third largest city in South Viet Nam (pop. 230,000) after Saigon and Danang. If Qui Nhon went, so would Nha Trang, 100 miles to the south...
...streets, filled with Hondas, pushcarts, hookers, shine boys, beggars and wounded war veterans, are as noisy and chaotic as ever. Food is still plentiful because the roads to the Mekong Delta remain open. But tea and coffee from the Highlands, avocados and lettuce from Dalat and lobsters from Nha Trang are all bound to run out before long. Many dance halls and teahouses have been closed, and the curfew has been moved back to 9 p.m. so that diners in the fine old French restaurants such as Aterbea and Auberge Ramuntcho must wolf down their meals...