Word: tuong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When they arrived with their wives and children in Sutherland, Neb., last month, neither Pham Tuong Do nor Tran Van Khang was surprised by the obvious differences between the tiny (pop. 840) corn-country community and their native Can Tho, second largest city in South Viet Nam. But they were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit...
...fighting was centered in the heavily populated and agriculturally rich Mekong River Delta area, known as Military Region IV. The Communists launched their attacks-primarily by rocket and mortar-against bridges, roads, district and provincial capitals, and government outposts manned by the increasingly feeble regional militia. Kien Tuong and Dinh Tuong provinces were particularly hard hit (see map). Communists in Kien Tuong, using a shoulder-fired missile, shot down a huge Chinook helicopter, killing all 54 government troops aboard. A major target was Highway 4, linking the Delta with Saigon...
...Collecting salaries for phantom troops, an old stand-by that still nourishes. One battalion in Dinh Tuong province carries 360 men on the pay book, but psychological-warfare investigators could count only 68 actual soldiers. Phantom troops show up only on pay day, turning over all or part of their pay to the commander before heading back to safe civilian jobs...
...maintains that civilians are not being bombed in the Delta. But last week Tom Fox of TIME's Saigon bureau paid a visit to Dinh Tuong province. He found that in fact the bombing has claimed numerous civilian casualties. When they heard Fox inquiring about the bombing, more than a dozen other patients came forward to offer the names of civilians and villages that have been struck. "The bombs are falling everywhere, and the civilians are getting killed," one woman said...
...Cong had recently broken contact in the province, and that no one really knew where they were. In the American effort to eliminate this elusive, wandering enemy -numbering 5,000 by the officer's estimate-the bombs are dropping night and day on the friendly Vietnamese of Dinh Tuong, who can only do their best to stay out of harm...