Word: conge
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...about Soul Alley and its deserters ever since the haven sprang up three years ago, and MPs have frequently staged minor raids and roundups. The incident with the Jeep sparked the biggest raid yet. But even if the brass cleaned up Soul Alley, its residents, rather like the Viet Cong, would soon drift back or relocate in another, similar spot...
...drag on without a settlement, it will simply keep on with Vietnamization. Many of the prisoners' wives are well aware that with the American troops out of South Viet Nam, there would be little bargaining leverage left to secure the release of American P.O.W.s still held by the Viet Cong or by the North Vietnamese. "It's a problem," admits one top Administration official. "We have 35,000 of theirs, but they may not care...
...whatever tranquillity they can find. President Nixon has pronounced himself pleased with their patience, but their patience is wearing thin. Increasingly, some of the wives complain that the U.S. Government is not doing enough. Some of them have been driven to espouse the offer put forward by the Viet Cong's Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh in Paris last September: that talks on releasing the prisoners would begin when the U.S. agreed to withdrawal within a set period. Says Mrs. Frankie Ford of Orange Park, Fla.: "If it is true that they will not be released until the U.S. gets...
...pods, like their grandparents out for a 15 m.p.h. procession to a movie or a drive-in church. After perhaps a dozen revolutions, one set of parents plucks their beloved bundle from a pod proudly emblazoned with a screaming, claws-out eagle, the stars and stripes, and the words "Cong Killer" on the side-and stuffs a thick wad of pink cotton candy in his mouth as a reward for not throwing up in his very first ride at the midway...
...fact that Saigon has three and a half million people instead of the 500,000 that it had 10 years ago is an indication of the success of this policy. But this is a kind of tricky thing. They may very well destroy the social base of the Viet Cong in Vietnam, or the Pather Lao in Laos, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they win the ground...