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...average North Vietnamese was more of a prisoner outside the walls of Hoa Lo than I was within. After all, my term was only for six years; they are lifers. May God give them strength...
...next day the Communists launched a strong counterattack, which ended in failure. In spite of repeated air strikes by South Vietnamese Skyraiders, however, the two neighboring posts remained in the hands of the Communists. From advance positions the North Vietnamese fired more than 40 122-mm. rockets at Bien Hoa airbase. The rockets hit a detention center for women prisoners, killing...
...they were--presaged the visciousness of Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice, or the pretentiousness of Eugenia Collier in the Sunday Times two weeks ago. Sarris attacked what he called "UNESCO-inclined critics," proclaiming that those who like Conrack (and other more-or-less "message" movies, including Sounder and Hoa Binh) are hopeless much-headed idealists, overwhelmed by uplift. But the critics Mad Andrew wrote about are figments of his imagination, since the only famous critics who praised the film (Kael and Kauffmann) are rigorous, not at all the "melting marsh-mallows" of his bile-ridden column. Sarris took potshots...
...Bein Hoa one time, man," Tom said turning to me. "You ever been in Bien Hoa?" I said yeah...
...kept sheets with days-to-go numbered on them; everybody knew how long he had before returning to "the world." We used to call the silver passenger jets that took off for the States from Bien Hoa "freedom birds...