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...seemed a quiet afternoon in Tra Khe village near Danang as U.S. Marine Sergeant James Dodson, 23, of York, Pa., went out on patrol. He passed out candy and C rations, took the village children for a ride in his Jeep, helped with such chores as rice harvesting and mashing. Suddenly he was slugged from behind. When he regained consciousness, he was being trussed, like some modern Gulliver, by six Viet Cong, who led him off into the jungle...
Acupuncture. The V.C. took Dodson to a mountain compound called "V.C. Tower." In it were 15 South Vietnamese army prisoners. Soon Dodson was joined by another Danang marine: Corporal Walter Eckes, 20, of New York City. Eckes had been captured four days after Dodson by three Viet Cong dressed in government uniforms as he waited beside a main highway. The two marines were the only English-speaking residents in the lightly guarded camp, save for a planted Vietnamese Communist pretending to be a captured Special Forces soldier...
Politics & Pay. Since 750 workers first walked off a Saigon project in mid-April, RMK-BRJ has been hit with strikes at ten of its 72 big building sites from Can Tho to Danang. At one time or another, about 12,000 of its 40,000 Vietnamese workers have put down their tools, often with reasonable gripes about wages and working conditions. Lately, though, the Viet Cong have been moving in. In Saigon last month, suspected V.C. agitators puffed a minor dispute into a walkout of 1,600 workers, virtually halted work on vital port facilities for nine days...
...plays, inspired if not condoned by militant Monk Thich Tri Quang in Hue. While the flames were still flickering over the nun's charred body, Tri Quang summoned the press to make clear his grievance: Premier Ky's successful suppression of the Buddhist-inspired rebellion in nearby Danang, a "crime" against Buddhists equal to the "crime of Hiroshima." Moreover, he said, it had been "masterminded by the United States President...
...After his tour as a 101st Airborne infantryman, he stayed on to take pictures. "A photographer has to be where the action is," he says. But for all the danger in the field, Van Meter found his scariest moments two weeks ago in the Tinh Hoi pagoda incident at Danang (TIME, June 3). "When you're out in the field, you always know there's your side and the other side. In Danang, I didn't have either side. The street stuff is ten times more dangerous than any jungle...