Word: truong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the evacuation of the Central Highlands, Thieu made another crucial decision in his historic rearrangement of the Vietnamese political map. He flew to Danang for consultations with ARVN'S best field commander, Lieut. General Ngo Quang Truong, and decided to carry out plans that apparently had been drawn up months ago: to pull back the main line of defense from Quang Tri and probably Thua Thien provinces down to the coastal city of Danang. General Truong had already lost the backbone of his defense the week before when Thieu ordered 4,000 men of South Viet...
...Thieu did not hold 200,000 or more political prisoners in his jails, he could not maintain the political no-man's land he uses to make reconciliation of differing Vietnamese impossible," David Truong told last night's meeting...
...Truong's father, Truong Dinh Dzu, finished second to Thieu in South Vietnam's last multi-candidate election--in the fall of 1967--and spent the next few years in prison...
...Truong called for "at least a two-to-three-month effort" to slash the Defense Department and agency for International Development budgets. He said the American government would then reallocate funds budgeted for the Saigon government to programs that were...
...Fitzgerald does not contribute to clarifying the Vietnamese situation vis-a-vis the public. Her expertise, quickly acquired from superficial trips to south Viet-Nam and French colonial writings, is apt to sow more confusion among Americans and hide the real reasons for the U.S. involvement in Viet-Nam. Truong Dinh Hung Director, Vietnam Political Freedom Committee