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...deadly 1968 Tet offensive, which brought the war home to urban Vietnamese as never before. The Viet Cong occupied large sections of Phu Vinh, capital of Vinh Binh province, and killed 13 civilians be fore they were driven out. The second factor is a swashbuckling ex-actor named Tom Hayden, at 27 the No. 2 U.S. representative in Vinh Binh province. He set the example by helping turn his Phu Vinh irregulars into a disciplined and effective fighting force...
...irregulars were started by Hayden two weeks after Tet as an early-warning network of civilians who, in their spare time, would help government forces defend Phu Vinh. Hayden, who once spent a summer in the U.S. work ing as a forest ranger, got local mer chants to contribute fire-fighting equipment and taught his men how to use it as well as the Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That...
...initiator of all this, Tom Hayden, is a recruiting-poster image of an American. Handsome and a rangy 6-ft. 3-in., Hayden wears the black uniform of his irregulars and drives around Phu Vinh in his Jeep, a Swedish-K submachine gun at his side and a .45-cal. pistol on his hip. He was a champion discus thrower at Long Beach College, later worked as an aerospace systems analyst and as a television actor (The Rounders, The Young Marrieds...
...Hayden served in the Marines before going to Viet Nam 20 months ago as a civilian with AID, the U.S. foreign-aid agency. He has been nominated for two Purple Hearts for wounds during and since Tet, for the Bronze Star with a V for valor when he rescued four wounded Vietnamese troops from an ambush late in March, and for the South Vietnamese Chuong My medal-the highest a civilian...
Nixon won in this state--the only one outside of the deep South which went for Goldwater in 1964. Arizona not only gave Nixon its 9 electoral votes, but elected Goldwater to take retiring Carl Hayden's place in the Senate. As he left for a sixty-day fishing trip, Goldwater said he looked forward "to serving in the interests of the way of life that you and I all love." Jack Williams beat Sam Goddard for the second time in the race for Governor...