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Penchant for Hiding. The healing time, nearly always prolonged, is in proportion to the size of the ulcer. In some cases, because of the gangrene, the entire wound has to be excised. Even in less severe cases, a skin graft may be required to close it. Without such plastic surgery, victims are left with "a hole in the leg," rather like a bullet hole. Dr. Dillaha's team recommends that when doctors do suspect a brown recluse bite, they give the patient a heavy injection of a cortisone-type hormone, and repeat it, in stepped-down dosage, every other...
...leadership gap is in fact the ARVN's greatest difficulty. Where able officers still lead, South Vietnamese units fight well. But able officers are all too few, and the rest are often chosen for their social position or their political ties-and often, too, become preoccupied with the graft that has long been part of an officer's perks in Asia...
...aware of the South Vietnamese army's inadequacies, the Vietnamese joint general staff is at work on plans to reorganize its forces "from top to bottom," as Ky puts it. One proposal would disband the four corps commands and the ten divisions, with their tempting opportunities for warlord graft and corruption, and create more flexible units that would specialize in pacification efforts, counterguerrilla action, and search-and-destroy missions. With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens...
...getting no better. The average income for the country's 33 million people is a meager $500 a year, and buying power is being forced down by rising living costs. The government's huge bureaucracy is unresponsive to economic problems and shot through with corruption and graft...
...crime; most successful crime is, by definition, secret or invisible. All too numerous are the felonies that intimidated victims never report. And no figures can account for the ordinary consumer or the bilked businessman who does not know that he has been cheated. Embezzlement, price-rigging, tax evasion, bribery, graft, are all far more prevalent than the number of cases that are prosecuted...