Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Golden Fleece last fall, he deployed 10,000 marines throughout northern paddyfields to give Viet Nam peasants the most valuable present of all-security to harvest and sell their crops without interference. One result was that the Viet Cong had to boost their 10% "rice tax" on farmers to 60% in unprotected areas, with no rise in their popularity rating. More often, the G.I.'s effort is spontaneous. At Phu Bai, marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies...
Elapsed Time: 35 Minutes. There was no triage problem in the case of Marine Colonel Michael R. Yunck, 47. As operations officer of the First Marine Air Wing, Yunck had helped to plan Operation Harvest Moon; later he went out in a four-man armed "Huey" helicopter, directing fighter-bomber attacks south of Danang. He was about to call in a strike on a tiny, nameless hamlet when he looked down. His chopper was low enough for him to see women and children. It was also low enough for a Viet Cong machine gunner to sight in on the Huey...
...down the province of Quang Tin between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops, is a paddy-checkered producer of rice used to feed enemy troops. It is harvest time. And Viet Cong control of the region has made Route One-the natural north-south highway between Danang and Chu Lai-too hazardous for allied...
...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...
...Christ, was arrested for "disturbing the peace" by reading aloud to imported strikebreakers a vivid definition by Jack London: "A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks by refusing to have anything to do with them. Inevitably, the strike has attracted some Berkeley students-coeds in college sweaters and wool stockings, boys in Zapata-style...