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Andrews, a supplies specialist who arrived in Tuzla on Christmas Eve, was sharing a drafty warehouse with about 200 men and women bedding down on green cots with shaky frames. Featuring a muddy concrete floor and diesel fumes, Building 21 is a temporary billet until tent cities are built at the base. For now, bedtime fashion consists of sweaters, wool hats, glove liners and socks. The bundling up is useful because nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but it is not much help against drips from a leaky ceiling. Meals are still prepackaged rations of stews, mushy vegetables and dry cake...
...with Hong Kong, Singaporean and European businessmen. On Dong Khoi Street, the Continental Palace Hotel has undergone a complete renovation. The famous "Continental shelf," once an open-air terrace where American journalists and government officials camped out, is now enclosed and air-conditioned. The Rex, formerly a U.S. Army billet, has reopened as a luxury hotel, and the Majestic, facing the Saigon River, has been spruced up. The hotels take only hard currency...
...morale-boosting perks provided by owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. Until this season the 49ers were the only team in the league to fly to away games in roomy wide-body jets, giving players space to stretch and move about in. They are still the only team to billet all players one to a room on the road. DeBartolo lavishes long-stemmed roses and expensive gifts on players' wives. "It's first class all the way," says tight end Brent Jones, "like we're an extended version of his family...
...weeks following the end of the war, islanders complained about the exhaust-spewing military trucks that were taking parking spaces on Ross Road, the capital's main street. Residents who had to billet the soldiers, sleeping as many as four to a room, only half jokingly expressed fears for the women. Now the troops live in three large "coastels," self-contained floating barracks, each housing up to 930 men. The facilities have mess halls, gymnasiums and a squash court; they purify their own water and generate their own electricity. Says Major General Keith Spacie, commander...
About two hours later we decided to seize the opportunity to move to the relative safety of TIME'S office, located beneath the street level in an adjacent building. As we made our way down the stairs in the darkness, we found that the army billet in our lobby had suffered a direct hit. The ceiling had collapsed. The doors of our mailboxes had been ripped off their hinges. Not a window on the ground floor remained intact. We hastened to the TIME office 50 yds. away. As the night wore on, the fighting flared up again. Sleep...