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...Gia Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck. Whether they stopped to shift their load, as they said, or to grab a beer or a whore, is beside the point. Within minutes, one of a legion of larcenous Vietnamese urchins surrounding the truck had made off with a fire extinguisher...
...life, Communist gunners cut loose a savage rocket barrage aimed at the heart of the capital. Firing from positions six miles east of downtown Saigon, they launched 26 Soviet-made 122-mm. missiles, whose only warning is a high-pitched whistle. Two missiles smashed into two houses in Gia Long Street and killed eight civilians. Another landed within 200 ft. of the Rex, originally an apartment building and now a U.S. billet. American officers there abandoned their breakfast and threw themselves under tables while Vietnamese waitresses screamed in terror. A fourth round smacked into a bookshop on Tu Do Street...
Soon after arriving in Hue I went in a Jeep with three Viet Nam officers to inspect sites where the bodie of executed men were said to have been found. We went first to Gia Hoi high school in District Two, east of the citadel Here 22 new graves had been found, each containing between three and seven bodies. It is still a horrifying place The officers told me that the bodies had been tied and, again, most had been shot through the head, but "some had been buried alive...
...reduce regimentation, says Criminologist Daniel Gia-ser, no prison should house more than 100 inmates, v 4,000 in many of today's bastilles; small groups of tractable prisoners could live in Y.M.C.A.-type hotels or apartments...
...total of nearly 19,000 structures were destroyed in the city itself, and more than 2,300 in Gia Dinh province. All told, the capital district has 206,000 new refugees living in 114 temporary quarters and camps. It will probably take eight months to find adequate new housing for them all. For once, the Saigonese have given the government good marks-for its prompt aid to the refugees. There has also been a noticeable decrease in neutralism among the populace, which seems to be swinging more toward antiCommunism. The South Vietnamese army is getting an unprecedented average...