Word: bunkerism
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...because it is so Viet Cong-infested that until now every allied incursion has invariably drawn heavy gunfire. F-100s plastered the valley with 750-lb. bombs and napalm tanks before the 1st Cavalry landed, and rocket-artillery helicopters overhead covered their advance. When they hit a V.C. concrete bunker, the men of the 1st Cavalry slammed a wire-guided SS-11 missile designed for use against tanks into the bunker, knocked out the three V.C. snipers. Later they captured and dismantled one of the weirdest V.C. gimmicks yet: a giant crossbow, rigged with an 8-ft.-long arrow aimed...
...Near Bien Hoa, a Viet Cong deserter was captured by a company of the 1st Infantry Division-the "Big Red One"-and led it straight to his buddies' bunker. Some bunker. The first U.S. charge was turned back by anti-personnel mines set off electrically. A second, then a third U.S. attack was driven back by withering rifle and machine-gun fire. Finally, the G.I.s called for a flamethrower. It was brought up by helicopter, and Private Wayne Beck of Rolla, Mo., strapped it on his back for a fourth assault. Beck got within 60 ft. of the bunker...
...five days the general was urged to step aside quietly by high-ranking loyalist colleagues, Garcia-Godoy and U.S. Special Delegate Ellsworth Bunker, the able diplomat who earned high praise from President Johnson last week for his efforts throughout the crisis. At one point, Wessin y Wessin reported that the CIA had offered to buy his modest $18,000 house for $50,000. The U.S. countered that the $50,000 was his own idea. Through it all, Wessin y Wessin refused to budge...
Eventually, the patient, persistent negotiating of U.S. Special Delegate Ellsworth Bunker paid off. He got a late-hour assist from President Johnson...
...Santo Domingo, of course, that the damage was most evident. Day by day, the civilian population there was growing more restive, and the pressures for settlement increased. Last week, a group of top capital businessmen petitioned Chief OAS Mediator Ambassador Ellsworth T. Bunker to press for an end to the "deterioration of all our activities, economic as well as educational and civic...