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...paddle-powered waterbed rafts. These innovative crafts are just beginning to appear on the raft-race circuits, but, from all indications, it seems unlikely that they will ever catch on. Both the Water Bedlam (skippered by Tinker Lindsay, Tad Paul, and Lisa Noll of Adams) and the Delta Queen (manned by Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their pains by walking off with the "Cholera...
...first wave of refugees deluged the Saigon area yesterday as fighting in the Mekong Delta increased. Refugees also flocked to Hue--already so crowded that its university has suspended classes to make room for families--as many Hue inhabitants began fleeing toward Da Nang...
...Mekong Delta), Viet Cong guerrillas rocketed the provincial capitals of My Tho and Can Tho, and attacked a number of government outposts near the southern tip of the country. But activity was too limited to be considered a new front. Bus drivers traveling the Mekong Delta on their way to Saigon were told by local Viet Cong that the roads were still safe...
...trying to get the company's view included. It helps that many of ITT's publicists are former newsmen. Company flacks often go to press clubs, attend the weekly lunches of U.S. correspondents' associations abroad and put in appearances at meetings of journalistic societies like Sigma Delta Chi. Says ITT's Washington News Director John Homer: "It's good for us, and frequently it's good for them...
...entire day, a seemingly endless convoy of trucks poured into the town, carrying troops from the 21st Division, normally stationed deep in the Mekong Delta. Everyone seemed confident, except for the American helicopter crews waiting to carry some high-level U.S. military observers to the battlefront. "They'll never win this war as long as the Vietnamese let those guys fly choppers," said one Army captain, gesturing toward the dozing crew of a ramshackle Vietnamese Air Force "Huey." "These guys can't fight and won't fight. You'll never catch them in the air after...