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Close enough, it seemed, for some extraordinary political events to take place in Saigon. On Wednesday a group of leading anti-Communists met for tea at the officers' club at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Their host was Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant airman who was Prime Minister from 1965 to 1967. Among Ky's 30-odd guests were such prominent figures as Dr. Tran Van Do, former Foreign Minister and head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Geneva Convention of 1954, and Father Tran Huu Thanh, leader of the Catholic anticorruption movement that has sponsored several...
...British, West Germans and Italians. But the work is divided according to each country's share. Thus Britain builds 42.5% of the airframe, West Germany builds 42.5% and Italy builds 15%-the wings. Work on the propulsion system is broken up in the same proportions. Many a European airman argues that a more efficient way must be found, perhaps by merging several companies into a multinational giant to compete with U.S. makers...
...suggest that healing in the military is somehow immoral for a doctor is ridiculous. Is it less moral to treat a wounded airman or soldier than a civilian? I hardly think so. To even suggest it is an insult to the medical profession's vow to heal all who suffer. Mark F. Cancian '73 2/Lt. USMC
Explosions shattered the cool early-morning calm at South Viet Nam's Bien Hoa airbase one day last week. For 20 minutes, 35 Viet Cong 122-mm. rockets blasted the sprawling base, destroying four F-5 jet fighter-bombers, heavily damaging a workshop and cafeteria, and killing one airman and one child...
Many of the men are young and married; some talk eagerly, some nervously, of rejoining their wives. "There's a lot of catching up to do," one airman notes. When two soldiers in fatigues finally enter the room to announce that military buses are ready to take them to their planes, the troops line up quietly. A few complain softly as a lone servicewoman is invited to move up to the head of the line. Walking out, another airman offers a cynical farewell: "Well, this is our last hour in the great Republic of Viet...