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...second day, we paddled around Dau Be (Head of Calf) Island. (This region is a direction-giver's dream. "Three Peach Beach? Go past the rock that looks like a crocodile, round Duck Island, leave Fighting Cock Rock and Teapot Island on your left and you can't miss it.") Kayaking is hard work, and the limestone seascape is a maze of wrong turns. But for those in need of a rest, the islets are home to plenty of tiny beaches and endless caves, like the recently discovered Tam Cung: three cathedral chambers housing great stalagmites bunched together like organ...
...Dau T. Le, a Vietnamese refugee who lived in that country until 1981, said that "there is no modern health care in Vietnam today." Le she said there is no fertilizer and severe water shortages, and told of a village where half the population died in a year because of poor living conditions...
...progress in the war by lives taken, not land taken). Viet Nam gave rise to an elaborate language of deceit. Officialese was done in the Latinate: incursion, attrition, pacification, termination with extreme prejudice. The linguistic underside of that was the flip, sinister slang that the American G.I.s contrived: dinky dau (crazy), numbah ten (the worst), Charlie (the Viet Cong), grease (kill). The antiwar movement built a massive vocabulary of rhetorical excess about "fascist Amerika." Officers lied in writing up citations for their men and themselves. The Viet Nam Memorial is, in a sense, the most purely true thing that...
Last week, after winning a U.S. Public Health Service award for co-authoring a paper entitled "The Inhibiting of DNA and RNA Synthesis by Dau-norubicin and Adriamycin in 1-1210 Mouse Leukemia," Meriwether moved to a new job at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory in Boston. "I haven't talked to my new employer," he says. "He may not dig track." A more important question is whether Meriwether digs competing in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. "First things come first," he says. "My family and my work. But whether I do or don't compete...
Only Desk Soldiers. There was good reason for staying alert. Where the Communists had elected to do battle, they fought fiercely, even suicidally. Communist attackers threw themselves against a brigade headquarters of the U.S. 25th Division at Dau Tieng, an abandoned rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Saigon, damaging six helicopters and shooting down two others that attempted to get off the ground. At Long Binh, the sprawling U.S. Army Viet Nam headquarters northeast of Saigon, a guerrilla force led by a few regulars was beaten back at the wire with the loss of 132 men. A prisoner taken...