Word: vinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Risk of Death. Just after midnight three weeks ago, some 30 black-clad guerrillas filtered into the tiny town of Long Vinh, 75 miles south of Saigon. They quickly rounded up all 121 people in one area of the village and marched them off, sparing not even a toothless, crippled and nearly blind woman whom one guerrilla carried away on his back. During the march to a Viet Cong camp, 14 women and children risked death by dropping out of line and squatting unobserved in the tall rice. When the group reached its destination, eleven men, 33 women...
...American intruders are losing the war." Every hour the indoctrinator paused and asked if anyone wanted to contribute to the session. The peasants were stubborn, recalled Ho Thi Xien, a widow who was kidnaped along with her war-orphaned grandchildren, and "no one ever said anything." In choosing Long Vinh, the Viet Cong had picked badly. Though the area is 95% under Communist control, almost every young man in the village has joined the South Vietnamese army, and most families are tied by blood as well as by inclination to the government cause. Frustrated by the peasants' failure...
Second Try. At week's end the Viet Cong decided to try again. This time they kidnaped 108 residents of Dinh Cu hamlet, just a mile or two from Long Vinh. The peasants there are no more likely than the first group to cozy up to the Viet Cong, but they will be lucky if they escape with only a dose of indoctrination. While Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, a group of Viet Cong ambushed a truck convoy of civilians on a road 135 miles northeast of Saigon. Before they were through, they had killed nine people...
...months. Last week, as the delegates began organizing themselves into committees, the politicking had already begun. The younger representatives were lobbying vigorously for a share of the chairmanships that in the normal traditions of Vietnamese society would automatically go to their elders. The central Vietnamese, encouraged by General Vinh Loc, II Corps commander, were trying to put together a bloc to protect their interests against the north and the south. All told, some 60 to 70 political parties provided the setting of South Viet Nam's venture into nationhood as the Assembly set to work...
Word spread in many an airman's ready room of the fate that could befall the pilot who took a deadly hit from Red gunners. A witness was Navy Pilot Dieter Dengler, 28, whose escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp near Vinh was the first of the war. Dengler was born in Wildberg, West Germany, and came to the U.S. with his brother as a teen-ager in 1957; he joined the Air Force that same year, became a U.S. citizen in 1960, and was commissioned as a Navy aviator in 1964. Shot down over...