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...recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo-trellised canopies rigged over some jungle roads to inhibit aerial observation." What it boils down to, warned the Defense Secretary, is that the Reds are shifting "from a small-arms guerrilla action against South Viet Nam to a quasi-conventional military action...
...three days the marine tramped bootless through Viet Cong territory. Except to offer him food or water, Dodson's escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told...
...Bamboo...
...with nature. In the vast landscapes, nature is an awesome thing, baking the treeless plains and flooding the valleys, drenching the jungles with monsoons, decimating populations with pestilence and plague. Life in this world has always been precarious. And the way to maintain it is the way of the bamboo before the wind-a graceful yielding...
Coming out at Hong Kong, Koningsberger felt really depressed. He was back in a place with more freedom and more food, true, but also with beggars, pickpockets, litter and Coca-Cola hawkers. Behind the Bamboo Curtain he had left order and morality...