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...counter-mortar radar along the eastern edge of the DMZ, where the zone is bordered by the South China Sea, had indeed showed blips that looked like slow-moving, low-flying aircraft-like helicopters. American artillerymen had also reported sighting a series of strange moving lights near the Ben Hai River, the dividing line between North and South Viet Nam. Artillery and aircraft promptly opened fire on the targets and the blips disappeared...
...same place in the event of a direct hit. No one ventures above ground without his flak jacket and helmet, although most Marines carry their helmets and go bareheaded in order to hear incoming shells better. The first warning is the boom of the gun across the Ben Hai River separating the two Viet Nams. Then comes the quavering whistle of the shell tearing through the air, followed quickly by the final sharp bang of its explosion on impact. The whole process takes about eight seconds, giving the Marines time to dive for cover, though the North Vietnamese have...
...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...
...Geneva accords of 1954 that separated North and South Viet Nam stipulated the creation of a buffer zone between the two countries. No troops were to enter this so-called Demilitarized Zone, which averages three miles in width on either side of the Ben Hai River frontier. Hanoi has long regarded the DMZ as a convenient, protected freeway for infiltrating its soldiers into the South. Flagrant though that violation was, in recent months Hanoi has done far more: it has turned the DMZ into a giant staging area and mortar and artillery base for its buildup against the U.S. Marines...
Free Bombing Zone. The first landing zone, Goose, was only a mile south of the Ben Hai River. It was an enemy hornets' nest, and only 75 Marines were unloaded before they came under withering fire. The rest of the Marines sped to the secondary landing zone, Owl, and disembarked easily, but the men at Goose simply dug into the sand dunes and waited for their buddies on the beach to catch up with them. Then the advancing Marines hit the hole-to-hole kind of fighting that they have become accustomed to in recent weeks. Snipers would begin...