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While the crowd waited, the Viet namese air force C-47 carrying the can didates put down on the nearby air strip at Dong Ha. If the flight had ended in a spectacular crash, it could hardly have earned more headlines from Saigon to Washington. The candidates were outraged to find no reception committee, no hoopla, no autos. Misin formed about their plans, the province chief was waiting for them at another airstrip. The only transportation at Dong Ha was three dusty U.S. Marine trucks waiting for passengers on an other plane. The drivers were willing to let the candidates...
Wartime Snafu. Honestly surprised by the furor, Thieu and Ky called a press conference of their own to ex plain what went wrong. Far from being sabotage, the dustup at Dong Ha, said Thieu, was only a wartime snafu. And the person most responsible for the foul-up was not a government official; he was the chairman of the central cam paign committee, whom the civilian candidates themselves had appointed. The chairman had failed to give the province chief the correct information. But even though the reception committee found itself at the wrong airstrip, Thieu continued, it rushed to Dong...
...ladies have definite ideas of what they expect to gain from their visit. Says Mrs. Nguyen Thi Hai, 45, president of Nguyen Thi Hai Pharmaceutical Co.: "Until now, France was our model in business. Now it is the United States." Miss Nguyen Thi Dong Thanh, 31, a teacher turned manager of the Merry Realm Juice Milk Co., is anxious to learn enough to "catch up with my other friends who are in business." A younger businesswoman, Miss Truong Thi Bich Tuy, 25, runs Saigon's Socipha Drug Company, which is owned by her father. Why is she at Harvard...
...first time, the North Vietnamese zeroed in on the Marines with Russia's family of massive 152-mm. howitzers and long guns: one round hit the Con Thien command post, killing nine Marines and wounding 21. Red shelling of the chief Marine forward base along the DMZ of Dong Ha has become, in fact, so heavy and accurate that the post may soon be abandoned...
...heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food and supplies, within a three-mile radius of their Con Thien base camp, just south of the DMZ. Near the Marine base of Dong Ha, a 5,000-man South Vietnamese task force killed 150 Communists of the Viet Cong's elite 708th Battalion...