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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...
...Unite?" Though no one questioned the accuracy of Thieu's report on the Dong Ha dustup, the significant details went largely unreported in the U.S. until aired in a statement by Assistant Secretary of State William P. Bundy. Before that, Senators of both parties jumped at the chance of charging Ky with turning the election into a "fraud" and a "charade...
...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...
...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...