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...most foolish thing I did that week in Saigon was venturing out on a bicycle. If I meet a more harrowing experience in Vietnam between now and the day I leave I'll be very surprised. I found myself competing with American, Korean and ARVN army trucks; with motorscooters and motorcycles, jeeps, cabs, pedicabs, horsecarts, pedestrians, and other cyclists. The trip I took to the market was one long test of nerves and pedal-power as I continually coughed, wheezed and tried to keep fumes and soot out of my eyes...
...three weeks here I've gotten to know some worthwhile people. One is an ARVN officers who saw some of the early Dak To fighting. His family owns some hillside vegetable gardens and he took me through them. Pointing to an ancestor shrine (which looks like bird stations on post) standing in the middle of a field he told me how much he hoped he'd be somebody's ancestor...
Since Jan. 1, the Communists have shelled 49 district and provincial capitals and attacked eight of them. Twice in three days they temporarily occupied provincial capitals within 30 miles of Saigon. In northernmost I Corps, the Communists have already made 98 separate attacks on the U.S. Marine-ARVN Combined Action Platoons and overrun two of their outposts so far this year. Though they have won no major victories, the Communists have made a sizable show of force and demonstrated their ability to fight hard, if they choose to, in nearly every province in Viet Nam. Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, Deputy...
...ARVN dead...
...newspapers charged Martin with being a "colonialist," and demanded his expulsion. One paper ran a poem accusing him of every known vice and concluding: "You s.o.b., and your father and your mother and all your family and all your ancestors." More direct action was also threatened. Getting word that ARVN soldiers planned to sack the villa in which Newsweek is quartered, Martin had bars put on the windows...