Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ease the coastal cities that remained in government hands. By the end of the week four more provinces had fallen to Communist control for a total of 17, fully three-fourths of South Viet Nam's territory. Six full South Vietnamese divisions had disintegrated. The Communists occupied such refugee-swollen coastal cities as Qui Nhon and Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh. Although they slowed their advance toward week's end, presumably to consolidate the huge areas that had unexpectedly fallen into their hands, they were also infiltrating men into the south at the rate of about...
Phnom-Penh, once one of Indochina's most elegant cities, is seized by anxiety and foreboding. Its population of 500,000 has been swollen to 2 million by refugees. Despite the ever present danger from random Khmer Rouge rocketing, children still sing in the streets in the early evening and decorations are going up for the Cambodian New Year, April 13. But after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious...
...wirephotos from the hospital the next day were the most gruesome I have ever seen of a sports injury, T.C.'s left eye was swollen shut, and the entire side of his face was gruesomely blackened. The doctors said he was lucky to be alive and that he might not regain adequate sight in that...
...provinces to thirteen (out of 44). First to go were Quang Tin and Quang Ngai in the north. They were followed by Thua Thien; its capital, the old imperial city of Hue, easily fell to the Communists early one morning at midweek. That left only the city of Danang, swollen grotesquely with panicky refugees, as a final enclave in the entire five-province northern area that is referred to as Military Region I (see box, page 33). Some of the government's best units - such as the rangers and the First Division - were defending the city against about...
...still the site of a sprawling, bustling, seemingly impregnable American military compound, filled with thousands of free-spending U.S. Marines and G.I.s. By the time it fell to the Communist attackers last week, Danang had become demoralized and swollen beyond recognition with refugees. TIME Correspondent William Me Whirter spent several days there until he was ordered to depart on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon. His report...