Word: trung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing ground of South Viet Nam itself, very little of equal value was happening. In a panic-stricken debacle along Saigon's Hai Ba Trung Street U.S. military police opened fire on a truckload of civilian dockworkers and killed six of them. In Danang far to the north, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky made an even more quaking move: a group of Vietnamese marines "invaded" Danang and quietly established control over the major center of Buddhist political unrest, then lounged peacefully on the grass. That quietude may well be shattered by Buddhist riots. From Saigon to the Red Chinese border...
...peace, women have stood staunchly beside Viet Nam's menfolk for nearly 2,000 years. Sometimes, they have stood in 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...
...reportedly pays keen personal attention to the Viet Cong intelligence organization, headquartered in Hanoi under the title of "Central Research Agency" (Cue Nghien-Cuu Trung-Uong). Three special C.R.A. centers handle operations not only in South Viet Nam but in Cambodia and Laos as well. Terrorists and saboteurs receive a special six-month course in Haiphong, learning how to blow up everything from ships to oil storage tanks. One pint-size James Bond named Tran Van Bui was out fitted with an automatic pistol (plus silencer), explosives and a small knife that could inject poison...
...history of Viet Nam is full of heroines. Women often served as gen erals. In the 1st century A.D., the Trung sisters raised an army and started a rebellion against Viet Nam's Chinese overlords; one of their female com manders gave birth to a child on the battlefield, then strapping her infant on her back and brandishing a sword in each hand, led her troops against the Chinese. In 248, a 23-year-old girl put on a suit of golden armor, climbed on the back of an elephant, and led her army into the field against Viet...
...guerrillas can be found inside as well as outside the Trung Lap camp. One night, a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into a platoon barracks, killing one Ranger and wounding five. A captured Viet Cong document states matters clearly: "One U.S. instructor dead is worth two Vietnamese majors. One U.S. major is worth two Vietnamese generals...