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...black market jumped from $51 to $140. The traffic halted only when the military took control of the Air Viet Nam flights to provide for their own families. Then came the welcome promise that the U.S. would begin an airlift to take 10,000 people a day to Cam Ranh, a half-hour's trip by air some 200 miles to the south. But still there was panic. Even the so-called priority evacuation flight, limited to Americans and Vietnamese with proven U.S. connections, brought hundreds of people stampeding to the gleaming white U.S. consulate. Mimeographed consulate passes were...
...roughly resembles one proposed by retired Army Lieut. General James Gavin, who in 1966 pro posed that American forces draw back to such easily defended enclaves along the South Vietnamese coast as Nha Trang, Cam Ranh, Qui Nhon and Danang itself. These populous cities have economic and military value; they also contain vital facilities such as harbors and airstrips that offer the best opportunity for successful defense. Although most American military experts rejected the enclave strategy when Gavin first proposed it, many of them are now giving Thieu high marks for his strategy of retreat...
...Congress he established himself as a New Deal Democrat. In 1952 he moved up, bucking the Eisenhower landslide to win election to the Senate over conservative Republican Incumbent Harry Cam. In the Senate, Jackson was soon enlisted in the Democratic campaign to bring down Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and end his witchhunt for subversives in Government. Among other things, Jackson asked a series of ironic questions during the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped reduce the Wisconsin Senator to an object of ridicule. The strain of those hearings led to an attack of fibromyositis, an extremely painful, body-wide...
Planes landed at Cam Ranh every six minutes; ships unloaded millions of tons of supplies there monthly; hundreds of thousands of soldiers flew into the base to be reassigned to the northern parts of South Vietnam. It was incredible to me then that three years before there had been nothing there but white sand and the startling blue water of the South China...
Last year I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months age. Sand drafts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...