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Next day the North Vietnamese struck in I Corps-South Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces-in a coordinated set of attacks on more than a dozen allied positions. In one, the North's rocketeers fired 24 Russianmade 122-mm. projectiles at Danang Airbase, destroying one F-4 Phantom jet and two spotter planes and heavily damaging five other craft. But there were no allied deaths, and within hours the runways were repaired and the base fully operative again. In another attack, some 5,000 Communists tried to overrun two U.S. forward positions in the Que Son Valley...
...Where You From?" Romney, jaunting from mess hall to hospital ward, shook hands with hundreds and passed out countless Michigan-state medallions graven with his name. But he often seemed more like a thoughtless than a thoughtful candidate. At the military hospital at Danang, he marched under the glare of television lights into a ward for seriously wounded U.S. servicemen. He glad-handed one Marine and asked: "Where are you from?" but the soldier could not answer because he had a tracheotomy tube protruding from his throat. "Where were you injured?" the Governor asked another patient, whose bleeding neck...
Making a three-day sweep from Danang to the Delta, Michigan's Governor George Romney toured Viet Nam last week to learn more about the war, cheer the troops and gain some public exposure that might do him no harm on the home front. He was no stranger to the territory, of course. The last time he ventured into Viet Nam "in South Korea" and later declared that U.S. officials had "brainwashed" him. This time Romney came away convinced that he had "a firm grasp of the situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate...
...Negro Marine heard Mormon Romney speak and asked dryly: "Is the Governor letting Negroes into his church yet?" Another Marine at Danang refused at first to shake his hand. "I don't like some of the things you've been saying about Viet Nam," he explained. Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military...
...combat troops, particularly those key men that commanders feel they can ill spare if the unit has to go back into the line, there are special camps within South Viet Nam itself, notably at Danang and Vung Tau. Here battle-worn troops are sent to recuperate on three-day passes that are technically R & R but really bonuses that do not jeopardize their basic five-day R & R leave...