Word: tuong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most heavily hit region of the current campaign has been Dinh Tuong province, where 600,000 Vietnamese, mostly small farmers, are crammed into a tiny area one-third the size of Rhode Island. In the past two months, American planes have flown more than 125 missions over Dinh Tuong-an average of more than two a day. Each mission is composed of anywhere from three to 36 B-52s; each plane is loaded with 30 tons of bombs. A few of the victims at present in Dinh Tuong Hospital...
Inside the wards, Dr. Tran Cong Tuong, dean of the Surgery Department, walked with me as I saw for myself the results of the air attack. The son of the vice-director had been wounded. A physician, Liu Ty Tung, of the Traditional Medicine Department, received a severe concussion and suffered a broken car drum. A patient sitting near her was killed instantly. Chun Ty Mai, 13, daughter of a woman physician in the hospital, also suffered a concussion and had one big toe blown off. Her father had already died...
Nguyen Ty Hin, the sister of Mai, Dr. Tuong told me, was running for shelter when she was hit with shrapnel which severely wounded her hip. A large wound was opened up by a splinter from an anti-personnel bomb...
...have no answer." He adds: "There is no disposition to go bounding in there with big flat feet." Still, there have been new violations of the Cambodian border by both American and South Vietnamese troops. Colonel Ernest Terrell, senior U.S. adviser in South Viet Nam's Kien Tuong province, exchanged caps and pleasantries with the chief of a border station just inside Cambodia. The colonel explained that he was under orders "to encourage meetings between Vietnamese and Cambodians." The White House insists that these ventures represent no change in U.S. policy. In fact, some at the State Department...