Word: trung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall, the U.S. maintains in South Viet Nam a Special Forces military mission intended to stiffen Diem's 170,000-man army and to give anti-guerrilla instruction to selected Ranger units. A TIME correspondent last week reported on the work of a five-man U.S. group at Trung Lap, a village only 20 miles northwest of Saigon. With a force of four Ranger companies-two in training, two in the field-and a detachment of Civil Guards, the U.S. mission is fighting the Viet Cong for control of an area scarcely 15 miles square inhabited...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
Each morning at Trung Lap, Sergeant Guy Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...
...stage, women led some of their most spectacular revolts. In A.D. 40, Trung Trac, whose husband had been beheaded by the Chinese governor, gathered an army of 80,000 Vietnamese to storm the governor's fort and set up her own kingdom, which lasted for two years. One of Trung Trac's army commanders was a stanch female who went into the fray nine months pregnant, gave birth on the battlefield, then rose to lead her troops in a futile last assault against the avenging Chinese. When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn...