Article about American families in South Vietnam

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Article about American families in South Vietnam
Description
Original title: "dependent", Keever's title: "'Bring a Baseball' as US Saigon Families match up [?] another coup," Article for the New York Herald Tribune about the experience of American families during political instability and escalating violence in South Vietnam
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16001 prowald dependent ones suggested precede paren
during the past six weeks american families in vietnam have
experienced the gulfve tonkin crisis coma and american bombing
novietnam comma countless student demonstrations comma religious
buddhist catholic religious rioting GOED
Nomos
this week they saw vietnamese paratroopers rangers and
arnored cars again buzz through the streets for vietnams
socalled third coup detat stoppara
dangalorebancong.
during each crisis commu the first
question asked by american families housewives was quote will
we be evacuated query unquote stoppara
despite tensions
FOR CAN EMBASSY
aboment conne official figures
indicate that the numberve dependents in vietnam has risen
95
about ten percent stop the first weekve august there were
about onethousand ninehundred thirty depent dependents in vietnam
dash roughly onefourth of thom military families stop the latest
figuresve first in september Wh shows, twothousand onehundred thirty
dependents
stopunparen moredeepe
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16002 prowald dependent two quote oh this was just another
crisis cmaunquote the young american wiv wife army captain
hig said referring to vietnams third bloo socalled coup detat
sunday stoppgra stopquote we just stayed home like always stopunquot
quote everyone brings aye baseball bat
and chips nye notch on it for each crisis stop
full stopunquote para
then they come here
mine is about
the motherve three small children comma she said pho
had been here quote three coups un stopun stopach unquotedash
unnin which has become indicating she was an quote oldtimer
unquote who has been here since november last year when
ngo dinh dien rogine was toppled stoppara
the numberve coups here has become eye standard unitve
measure for the american families doh, dash two coups means
mam stoppara moredeepe
since january con
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16003 provala dependents three for mrs joe williams comma IIVO
vifve wifeve navy commander comma has learned vietnam quickly stop
on august fiv fifth dash during tonkin gulf crisis undash she and
husband were playing golf in norfolk virginia when learned would be
zenom informed they wore being rushed to vietnam to stoppara
quote eye nov e nearly fell off my a golfcort omaunquote she
has gasped stop
three weeks later she ai
human quote still in aye stateve
shockt unquote she arrived vietnam just as student demonstrators
forced prime minister majgen nguyen khanh stop stepdown from
office stop k undaunted she went shopping first day comme returning
to find house had been on fire stoppara
sweek on she et husband joe went to radio station to telephone
their rele relatives in tennessee stoppara
quote aye man cane running up stairs and
s asked why all
troops wore outside gates omaunquote husband explained in southern
drawl stopquote the robol troops had taken over and we did notrpnot
even know it stop the guard made us sneak out the back alley to avoid
troops stopunquote para moredeepe
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16004 prowald depondonts four
they taxied through calm sectionve
city and quote no unquotodash as mrs williams is called undash
casually vent shopping for earrings stoppra stoppara
quote when we heard troops had surrounded airport comma
we knew she could notrpnot get to our home nearby cnaunquoto
husband explained calmly stop quote she teel taxi to friend
she wont to friends and as got outve taxi the armored cars
rolled by by stop thats when it really hit her cnaunquote
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16012 prowald dependents five
though notrpnot aye shot was
fired during bloodless revolt comma any american housewives
complained they had been kept in the dark about the developments stop
with civilian telephones cutoff comma they were forced rely on
american military radio station which warned armer americans
keepoff streets and noteptnot to attempt to break through any
roadblocks stop even during late evening hours comma radio
stion station repeated the first tim
inma
rebel statements mmbad which wanted to expel thanh fron
nd arrest in stop many though the coup against
khanh had succeeded in though negotiations had been
initiatod
stoppara moredeepe
7 mots rayesi
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16014 prowald dependents six
but the quote oldtimers unquote took
this coup the sunday troop movements casually stoppara
quote eye was stopped at my jeul jeweler to pick up
some dangly earrings and he was stuffing all his gold in the
safe and screamod its another coup enaunquote wiev wifeve
navy lieutenant laughed stopquote well give me my earrings connunquote
she told him stopquote ve might be evacuated stop
quote he kept screaming its aye coup and who could
think about earrings but eye got then anyway cnaunquote she
said stoppana moredeepe
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16020 prowald dependents seven but even the teenagers bake the
situation view vietnam fron aye with cloistered calmness stopparen
EX most american families live behind barbedwire or bamboo.
Sprint
fences the upperclass villas in old french' quartervo town
espnquote stopunparen
Iron one
they just bombod the bar
when aye grenade exploded down the block
american home twelve yearold son quot wrote his grandmother quote
nothing much happens here stop
across the street but only coupla poople scratched stopunquote
paron his mother censored the letters unparen stoppara
despite casualness though american families have received
evacuation instructions comma and have been told keep one
evacuation kit packed stoppara
one housewife has in her evacuation it two silk brocade
dresses stopquote the commies can have my washed out cottons
cnaunquote she said stop nearby vas brown attache case with all
quote every It letter my husbands written me in ten yearsve marriage
stop eyem notrptnot going to leave that behind stoppara
she looked around airconditioned study and mooned quote but
eyed have to leave my wedding pictures and my mothers sterling
silver candlebra stopunquote enditdeepe
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Date
1964, Aug. 16
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Civilians in war; Military dependents; Diplomats' spouses; Vietnam (Republic)
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B187, F2
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English