Word: nhatrang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debacle in Viet Nam created some different Americans too. A veteran Foreign Service officer recalls that in Saigon discontented "dependent wives" sympathized with the V.C. "They talked about 'our struggle' as if there was some connection between the guerrillas shelling Nhatrang and a lot of old hens in the embassy compound refusing to make peanut-butter sandwiches...
Asked about the possibility of Montagnards reclaiming their former lands in the future, Henry Sandri, Deputy Director of the Office of Development Operations at CORDS Regional Headquarters in Nhatrang, replied, "They can file a claim anytime, but security will determine whether and when they can go back." But he confessed that he did not understand why Vietnamese farmers were farming in areas which Montagnards had been forced to leave for reasons of security...