Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also moved many units already stationed in the city to barracks outside of Saigon; Westmoreland even ordered the transfer of MACV headquarters to Tan Son Nhut Airbase, three miles from the city. The Army also began a campaign to persuade G.I.s to save up to buy a new car when they got back home rather than spend their money at $1.35 a cup on "Saigon tea," which they must buy to sit with bar girls. As unlikely as it may seem, even that campaign has had some success. The result of it all has been a reduction by half...
Most of the heavy military equipment for the Communist troops continues to come down the pipeline from the North through Laos, but the Communists manage to fill much of their food and clothing needs within Cambodia itself. Under a procurement system involving the Chinese embassy in Pnompenh, the Communists buy up to 100,000 tons of Cambodian rice a year. Until the Cambodian army cut itself into the lucrative trade recently in order to raise money for Sihanouk's pet welfare programs, it was handled almost exclusively by Cambodia's colony of Chinese merchants...
...from North Viet Nam and China at Sihanoukville, Cambodia's outlet on the Gulf of Thailand. They are then trucked over the U.S.-built Friendship Highway to Pnompenh and sent to the border bases along routes that the American military has named the Sihanouk Trail. Occasionally, V.C. guerrillas buy surplus Chinese small arms from local Cambodian commanders, but this is strictly local enterprise by Sihanouk's low-paid officers...
...musicians. Men and women sitting on their dirty stoops rise and walk over to see what's going on. Kids come running, pushing, fighting, laughing. The trio starts to play. It's an evening whose gaity relieves for a moment the oppression of dirt, disease, and hunger. "We're buying time," Heckscher says. "But you have to buy time in any way you can and hope that some how things will grow better rather than worse...
...weather is abominable. Since my youth in France, I've come to expect a warm ocean as a natural right, and I think no one has an excuse for living in New England. We professors who enjoy Mediterranean landscapes--and there are many of us--should petition Harvard to buy us a farm in southern France when we retire...