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...there in the spring of 1967. The suspicion that this was so came upon me not as a thought but as a deepening unease at the way we treated the Vietnamese and the way they treated one another. I hadn't been 10 minutes off the plane at Bienhoa before I saw one of our troops abusing the baggage handlers; the bus driver who ferried us to the transit barracks spent most of the trip screaming insults at the people on the road, and nearly made good on his threat to run down an old woman who was slow getting...
According to the official government report of July 17, Pham was "ambushed by the security forces and seriously wounded in a forest near Bienhoa. He was taken by helicopter to Saigon, but during the flight he died owing to his serious wounds." The New York Times reported four days later that the Colonel had, in fact, been arrested in a Catholic monastery and shot by the security police in a prison cell fifteen miles north of Saigon...
...these nightmarish conditions will take tough, well-trained troops, and last week the U.S. and its allies were quietly preparing such a force. A token group of Australian infantrymen last week took station at Bienhoa airbase-part of a joint 1,000-man Australian-New Zealand contribu tion to the war effort. Two thousand South Koreans are already in Viet Nam, and Seoul still echoes with rumors of another 15,000-man South Korean combat force being readied for Viet Nam service...
...against the arrival of the monsoon season. Fighter-bombers swarmed daily over North Viet Nam, blasting bridges, shooting up road and rail traffic, igniting petroleum storage tanks and striking within 55 miles of Hanoi. For the Americans, there were moments of tragedy: a pair of U.S. helicopters collided over Bienhoa airbase-the scene last month of an accidental chain explosion that killed 27 men and wrecked ten bombers. This time, nine Americans died...
CAPTAIN RICHARD C. LEE, 35, a stocky, crew-cut blond from Excelsior, Minn., serves as adviser to a South Vietnamese Air Force squadron at Bienhoa Airbase. He likes to fly combat missions, and occasionally he gets a chance. Three weeks ago, at the controls of an A-1H Skyraider, he accompanied Vietnamese planes on a strike against North Viet Nam; last week Lee took part in a raid against a Viet Cong installation...