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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infested region, warning all noncombatants to get out fast. More than 2,000 did. Then planes saturated the woods with chemical defoliants. After a few weeks of sunny, wind-scoured weather, the Boiloi Forest was tinder-dry. Last week U.S. bombers swept in with loads of Incendijel (an incendiary compound derived from napalm), while behind them flew C-123s dropping drums of fuel...
Camp Kannack stands on the crest of a gentle hillock near the midfield stripe of South Viet Nam, balanced like a football waiting for the kickoff. From the Kannack compound and its adjacent dirt airstrip, some 400 American and montagnard defenders oversee dense jungle, slippery slopes and the crumpled folds of ravines ideally suited for enemy mortar attack. A single ribbon of road leads south toward embattled Route 19, the east-west highway where government convoys are frequent prey for Viet Cong ambushes. Last week the Communists hit Kannack...
...sure enough, the latest mob of 500 Moslem students that roared up to U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones's residence last week in government trucks had not a brick in hand. Instead, the mobsters simply pushed through the gates into the compound and trampled the garden, then roamed through the official residence itself...
...Very Bad." Four miles across the rolling plateau, another Viet Cong unit of six to ten men crept toward a compound at II Corps headquarters, where 180 U.S. advisers lived. Slipping past the outer defense perimeter manned by Vietnamese guards, they cut their way through an apron of barbed wire, crawled on their bellies toward the compound gate. Just as they reached it, a U.S. sentry, SP5 Jesse Pyle of Marina, Calif., spotted them and opened fire, killing one guerrilla. The noise roused the sleeping Americans, saved many from certain death had the Viet Cong slipped inside...
...assorted dropsy remedies at their command, doctors are delighted that they soon may have still another. Ethacrynic acid, a synthetic compound discovered in 1960, has a dramatic diuretic effect even in patients who do not respond to other drugs, says a research team at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. It can be taken by mouth or, if necessary, injected. Its effects complement or enhance those of other diuretics, so that in critical cases doctors can give two medicines together for double the effect or more. Ethacrynic acid also seems to work in patients suffering from some degree of kidney...