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...rare occasions that ARVN was allowed to "liberate" a Viet Cong hamlet. Nowadays advisers barely even advise. In fact, says Major Jerry G. Williamson, a veteran of three tours in Viet Nam, "these guys don't really need advising. We're mostly out here to talk to FAC [forward air control] pilots and coordinate air strikes...
...FACs-forward air controllers who spot targets from tiny two-engine Cessnas for the fighter-bombers-were also forced to fly dangerously lower. During one four-hour mission, FAC Captain Conrad Pekkola, 32, dodged 15 SAMS as he circled the area between Khe Sanh and the DMZ. "A lot of 23mm. and 37mm. antiaircraft artillery have been moved south since the offensive began," said Pekkola. "Usually they aim at any break in the clouds because they know that's where we'll eventually be." In the first six days of the offensive, the North Vietnamese shot down five...
...acrimonious exchange followed between Pusey and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics. Galbraith rose during the meeting's question period to ask Pusey if the Corporation had consulted Fac-ulty and students in its decision to reject the proposals of Campaign GM. Galbraith also questioned the qualifications of Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 to make policy decisions in regard to apartheid in South Africa...
...Snell: the derby hero bashing his rivals, leading his team, conducting a tour of a moneyed man's San Francisco, and Hero Worshiper Snell going through the day-today hassles of making a tentative kind of life for himself and his family. Kaylor captures scenes and feelings-fac-tores, roadhouses, dancehalls, motorcycles-that make similar attempts in Joe look like musty melodrama...
...target today is a suspected enemy location near the gully behind that clump of trees," says the American Forward Air Controller (FAC) from a tiny spotter plane just above the treetops some 30 miles northwest of Saigon. On the receiving end of the message is a South Vietnamese pilot, Captain Hoang Manh Dzung, 28, who is flying a propeller-driven A-l Skyraider with a 4,000-lb. bomb load. Suddenly, standing the plane on its nose, Captain Dzung swoops down, releases a 500-lb. bomb and pulls adroitly out of the dive. After several more runs, the FAC radios...