Word: danang
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...week, 70 wiry South Vietnamese bent low on their racing bicycles, pedaling for all they were worth. Close behind were two vin tage French-made armored cars, their .30-caliber machine guns pointed unsportingly at spectators. It was an odd procession, and as it whizzed past his foxhole outside Danang, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Charles Armour, 18, whose patrol had been ambushed nearby only hours before, could only marvel: "It's really weird...
Weird was not the word for it. The South Vietnamese were holding a four-day bicycle race in one of the worst areas of the war: the battle-plagued Viet Cong-infested I Corps, from the Danang area to the Demilitarized Zone and back-a distance of 340 miles. It was, of all things, the opening event in a fun-and-games campaign by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to rally the nation for the Sept. 11 election of a constituent assembly...
...favorite Vietnamese avocation, and the precautions taken reflected the nation's interest. Highway 1 was swept beforehand by troops of the national police. U.S. Marine checkpoints were ordered to flash word ahead as the cyclists hove into view. When the arrangements were complete, the entrants gathered on Danang's waterfront. With the starting gun, they pumped briskly off, preceded by a jeepload of tour officials clearing puzzled drivers off the highway with a red flag and siren...
Perfect Buggers. For all his flair and dare, Page has developed into a sensitive photographer who has the respect as well as friendship of almost the entire Saigon press corps. Many of them gathered last May to celebrate his 22nd birthday. He had just been wounded in Danang, but suddenly showed up in Saigon announcing: "All you can do up there is drink vodka Collins. Besides, they're perfect buggers, those Buddhist rebels. It's my birthday, mate; let's order some champagne. I never thought I'd live to see it." Hardly anyone else...
...operating room at Danang East, two green-gowned Navy surgeons wielded their scalpels as Medical Corps technicians hovered around the table. But the patient was not one of the U.S. Marines for whose after-battle care the big Navy hospital was primarily in tended. She was Hoi Pham Tri, a tiny, frail Vietnamese girl...