Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chill, grey mist hangs over the jungled hills around Khe Sanh and drifts down onto the base's metal run way. The morning mist often lasts into the afternoon, the bright sun of recent weeks is lost in monsoonal overcast, and the air is raw and wet with winter. The camp seems to have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against...
...attacked on the high seas and we make no reply other than the inevitable mouthings of "diplomacy"; when we expend lives in an assault on the strategic Hill 881N and then return the prize to the enemy when we have won it, enabling him to continue to threaten our base; when we apologize to "neutral" Cambodia for intruding on its territory while battling an enemy which lives there-when all these idiotic blunders occur in a single week, it becomes quite evident that someone, somewhere, doesn't know what in hell he's doing...
TIME Correspondent Don Sider spent several days at Khe Sanh last week ducking incoming shells and observing the unique quality of life in the besieged Marine base. His report...
...taking their ordeal with considerable composure. Only their unwelcome bunkermates-the rats-be come frantic under fire. When the "in coming" starts, the rats race for the bunkers and wildly run up to the ceilings made of runway matting and logs. One sergeant has killed 34 rats, establishing a base record...
...might recall that the tax-rate had been rising at an average annual rate of $8.00 a year; the city had lost 100,000 people in ten years; we had lost $500 million in assessed valuation in 25 years (that's one quarter of our total assessable base. But more importantly than any of these losses, the city had lost the confidence of both its investors and its residents: only two buildings of any significance had been built in Boston in over 35 years; major insurance companies across America would not loan money in Boston; our credit rating had been...