Word: binh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gives them. "I get my jollies jumping out of airplanes," says one Negro paratrooper of his $55-a-month extra airborne pay. Unlike Negroes in previous wars, the Viet Nam breed is well disciplined: there are proportionately no more black than white inmates of L.B.J., as the Long Binh Jail is unfondly known. Many of the best Negro warriors are former civil rights
...massive textbook program financed mainly by the U.S., Taiwan and Australia has supplied more than 10 million books to Vietnamese schools-to the considerable irritation of the V.C. One Communist woman in black pajamas appeared at a school in the hamlet of Thoi Binh, looked at the books and warned Teacher Tran Thi Tarn: "You must not teach these things." Despite the warning, Mme. Tam, a mother of eight, goes on with her work. Says she: "It is important that our children have knowledge-then perhaps they will have a better life than...
Boondocks Warfare. The U.S. and Thailand consider the nation's insurgency problem as part of the same Southeast Asian struggle gripping South Viet Nam. So, too, does North Viet Nam. The proof may be seen in Hoa Binh, some 50 miles outside Hanoi, where the North Vietnamese are training 150 Thais at a time. Like Pak Chong, Hoa Binh is a school for boondocks warfare. There, the North Vietnamese teach Communist Thais the arts of weaponry, propaganda and sabotage before sending them back to make trouble in Bangkok's backyard...
...Cubby-Hole Enlisted Men's club in Long Binh, 20 miles north of Saigon, about 300 G.I.s were having their spill of beer and good cheer. Suddenly a spotlight pinned an opening door, and out wafted a striking blonde. For a second, the soldiers were dead silent. Then stomping, cheering and pounding on tables, they scrambled over each other to get a better look...
...routines. Sample: "You Catholics will be glad to know you can now eat Spam on Fridays." Traveling much the same circuit during his first Viet Nam visit, Evangelist Billy Graham was astounded at the size of his turnouts. When 2,500 G.I.s showed up to hear him at Long Binh, 13 miles from Saigon, he said: "Somebody must have told you Bob Hope was coming...