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...Third Marine Division, which was based in Danang. On Sept. 28, 1965, he disappeared while driving a Jeep. He was not seen by another American soldier until March 1968, when the Viet Cong herded several captured GIs into a Viet Cong prison camp in the mountains near the Laotian border. "He was on the other side, no question about it," says former Army Staff Sergeant David Harker, who was imprisoned in the camp for 16 months and is now a probation officer in Lynchburg, Va. "He collaborated. He took special favors. I don't know if traitor...
...area of the Vietnamese-Cambodian border, and Routes 1 and 2 in the south. One of the first provincial capitals to fall, two weeks ago, was Kratie, which dominates the northern Mekong approach to Phnom-Penh. The Vietnamese and rebel forces reached the Mekong in several places from the Laotian border southward to cut off Phnom-Penh from the north...
...many of the Laotians the only work available is strictly for women: prostitution. The brothels and massage parlors in northeastern Thailand are packed with young Laotian refugees. Some are also abducted from the refugee camps to serve in whorehouses...
...dreamed of conquering Gaul. Tim O'Brien, the ex-infantryman and former Washington Post reporter who is the author of this fine novel was, and wondering why he had not gotten on the bus to Canada. And Cacciato was marching the 8,600 statute miles that lie between the Laotian border and Paris. Paris, France...
...bring him back--Paul Berlin, Doc Paret, Oscar Johnson, the Lieutenant, and the rest--but in Paris they lose him, just as they lost him all along the way. This is a wonderful idea for a novel, but even in this novel it doesn't quite happen--at the Laotian border the squad turns back, and the chase goes on only in the mind of Paul Berlin...