Word: conge
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...Randers wait in mingled hope and dread for word of Sergeant First Class Donald Rander of Army Intelligence, captured at Hue on Feb. 1, 1968. Shortly thereafter two fellow soldiers who escaped reported that he had been wounded in the arm but was alive in a Viet Cong prison camp in South Viet Nam. There has been no word from Rander in five years. So his women wait, worry and try to pretend that there is holly in their hearts...
...green and white police vans slid into a small alley off Phat Diem Street in Saigon's Second District. Policemen toting M-16 rifles and wooden clubs jumped out and sealed off the alley at either end. Pushing brusquely into each apartment, they demanded identity cards. Suspected Viet Cong sympathizers, draft dodgers or army deserters were hustled...
...question of how the Communists can be prevented from seizing control of the new South Viet Nam government. U.S. intelligence sources report ominously that captured documents indicate that Hanoi is instructing many of its forces not to disband after the cease-fire but to reorganize as Viet Cong guerrilla-style units and continue terror and harassment tactics...
...more familiar demarcated topographic maps. To satisfy requirements of officers competing for acclaim, body counts are exaggerated either by falsifying data or by killing civilians. Sergeant Scott Camil, formerly a forward observer in Vietnam, explained: "If you killed someone they said, 'How do you know he's Viet Cong?' and the general reply would be, 'He's dead,' and that was sufficient...
...third night in Vietnam a woman walked past his guard post. She did not move away after he blew his whistle; he shot and killed her, South Vietnam identification papers were removed from her body, and she entered the official body statistics as an unidentified member of the Viet Cong. This was the first of two times that Tracey shot civilians from his guard post...