Word: dongdang
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...Highway 12 to Laos, a newly built guerrilla turnpike; the military-industrial complex of Vinh, where the Hanoi railway ends; a big rail bridge at Tanhhoa, spanning a deep ravine; the Hanoi-Haiphong highway; petroleum storage tanks in Haiphong; the rail line entering North Viet Nam from China at Dongdang. As a heavily populated civilian center of 644,000, Hanoi is unlikely to be hit before the others, although the North Vietnamese do not seem sure of that: one eyewitness saw residents digging trenches in parks and gardens there last week...
Take René Dupuis, the 25-year-old engineer who drove me from Langson to the fort of Dongdang, on Viet Nam's northeast frontier. "I like it out here," said Dupuis. "It's adventure, I feel I'm useful, and I like the Vietnamese." His rifle was propped against the seat beside him. Every mile along the road a French fortress of brick and bamboo dominated the countryside. Between them we passed patrols of bearded men, four or five in a group, wearing jungle-green uniforms and broad-brimmed, shapeless felt hats, snaking in single file...