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...typical Viet Cong soldier is a thin, unkempt young man hardly reaching a G.I.'s armpit and weighing scarcely 100 Ibs. Instead of riding in a Jeep or a helicopter, the Viet Cong private travels up to 40 miles a day through jungle on rubber-soled canvas shoes. His uniform is the same black calico shirt and trousers worn by all Vietnamese peasants; on his long, stringy hair he wears either a floppy jungle cap or a pith helmet covered with netting into which he thrusts camouflage appropriate to the terrain through which he is moving. His full field...
Reaching Due My training camp 170 miles northeast of Saigon, Harkins reviewed an honor guard, climbed into a Jeep with U.S. Adviser Captain William Berzinec of Newark, N.J., and drove to headquarters for a briefing by the camp commander. Vietnamese Colonel Dang Van Son. During the rest of the morning, Harkins saw Vietnamese trainees make a sham attack with blank ammunition on a mock Viet Cong village and then repulse an attempted ambush by "guerrillas." Amid the clatter of machine guns and explosions of "noise" grenades, Harkins commented. "These guys are really good." In one of the final demonstrations, Ranger...
...branched out into large-scale smuggling. Han's fleet of speedboats, powered by salvaged aircraft engines and diesel tank motors, easily outdistanced coast guard patrol boats on the short, 40-mile run between South Korean landing coves and the Japanese island of Tsushima; on land, Han's Jeep convoys loaded with booty defiantly traveled without license plates and with their own armed guard. It was a profitable two-way trade: to Japan he ferried Koreans who each paid $150-$300 for the illegal passage; from Japan he smuggled contraband cosmetics, toys, transistor radios, small machinery...
...heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just a tall girl, but now I'm a short commodity." When...
Carnegie-supported books have stirred action on everything from business schools to junior colleges and graduate education. But sometimes Carnegie has to create the experts, as in 1947, when it started sending "Jeep-sized" teams of U.S. scholars to Africa, prepared them for the coming problems of crumbling colonialism. In 1948. Carnegie gained immeasurable ''lead time" for the U.S. by starting Harvard's Russian Research Center. Soon due at another major university is an equally precedent-setting center on Communist China...