Word: tuong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history that its head of government had visited the place-Khanh set the locals agog. Elegant in camouflage-pattern combat fatigues, he strolled down a sandy street, chatted with a crowd, asked a dumfounded schoolgirl, "Did you pass your exams?"-and drew cheers of "Hoan ho trim tuong [Hail to the general...
Jouncing along the dusty, crushed-rock ribbon of road behind the wheel of a green Ford pickup truck, Hatcher M. James Jr., 41, an American AID officer in Dinh Tuong province, surveyed with satisfaction the peasants on either side peacefully tilling fields of green beans, tomatoes, melons. He waved at Vietnamese small fry, moonfaced boys and graceful schoolgirls in black sateen pants, who broke into excited smiles as the truck sped by and called out in English "hello hello" and "okay okay...
...opium and prostitutes in order to control them better. During the Indo-China war, thousands of men worked openly for the French, but cases of women collaborators were rare. Today women control much of South Viet Nam's wealth, and in her home a wife is called noi tuong, or "general of the interior." Matriarchal strength is compounded by the traditional Vietnamese view of the family as monolithic and united against all outsiders, but in Mme. Nhu's case, her family by marriage takes precedence over her own blood. She has fallen out with her father, mother and sister...
...South Vietnamese novelist and politician named Nguyen Tuong Tam sent his sons out to buy a bottle of whisky one night last week. For a while he sat drinking with them at his home in Saigon. "My sons, I feel very happy tonight," he said. "I am going to die very soon." Suddenly he keeled over, was rushed to a hospital where he died next morning. In his glass was found a lethal dose of cyanide...
...north from Saigon toward forested Binh Duong province, largely controlled by the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, gunners in the escorting H21 helicopters stood at open ports, scanning the terrain below over the barrels of .30-caliber machine guns. McNamara landed inside the defenses of a "strategic hamlet" called Ben Tuong, the pilot project of the U.S.-backed Operation Sunrise that was set up two months ago to isolate the population and to deny the Communists shelter and supplies...