Word: trang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the fall of the coastal resort of Nha Trang, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter cabled: "The real enemy that is now engulfing the country is not those 16 North Vietnamese divisions but the spreading upheaval, fear and chaos among its own people and its armies, who are growing as desperate and afraid of one another as they are of the invasion. People are resigned and preparing for the worst. They seem to have forgotten what it was that fortified them all these years, if anything more than a basic trust in U.S. military strength. For Americans, it is like watching...
Nowhere was this more apparent than in Nha Trang itself, a city that until last week had remained virtually untouched by the war. Long a balmy retreat for G.I.s and Vietnamese alike, the city of 200,000 was on Route 1, the principal north-south road in South Viet Nam, and the recently established headquarters for all of Military Region II. By last week it had fallen victim to the evils that had already become all too familiar since the Communist offensive began...
...early last week 200,000 refugees, many of them defeated soldiers from farther north, had arrived in Nha Trang, doubling the city's usual population. Everyone had heard of the agony of Danang, not only of its loss to the Communists but of its civilian panic and, worse, the violent behavior of its soldiers. The city made an effort to seal itself off from the war. Newly arriving refugees were barred from entering the town...
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...