Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Think of suggesting to an SDS meeting that a petition be circulated to award Walt W. Rostow an honorary (not electric) chair from Harvard. Then speculate for a minute, about telling your friends in Adams House what it is like to machinegun Viet Cong from a helicopter over the Mekong...
...Sloan, now a senior in Arams House, qualifies as one of Harvard's first "Viet Vets." After spending nine months of last year as a sergeant advisor in the Mekong, Sloan came back to Harvard to face a campus overwhelmingly against everything he had been fighting for. Certainly the American soldier coming back from any one of the wars we have engaged in has had a certain amount of difficulty readjusting to civilian life, but to come back from this particular war to this particular campus makes effective reintegration doubly difficult...
...Communists have dotted Cambodia's 600-mile frontier along South Viet Nam with dozens of jungle encampments, of which at least five are classified by U.S. intelligence as major bases (see map). The network, which stretches from the marshlands of the Mekong Delta into the bloodied hills of the Central Highlands, is believed to support six regiments of North Vietnamese regulars as well as innumerable Viet Cong guerrillas-a total of up to 20,000 men who are kept busy raiding and reconnoitering along the border. A key base is tucked away in Cambodia's "Parrot...
Despite fatigue, spirits were high. Considering their daily fight to survive in the tiny prison compound in the pestiferous heart of the Mekong Delta, their condition was remarkable. "Coming back," said Pitzer, "is like being born again...
...Edward R. Johnson of Seaside, Calif. Only Pitzer and Jackson were present at the ceremony, sitting behind a long table next to Hieu; the Viet Cong kept Johnson in the next room, explaining that he was too sick with dysentery to appear. The three had been prisoners in the Mekong Delta, and it had taken them, said Hayden, a month to reach Pnompenh from there, "under strafing, bombing and reconnaissance." All three remained in Viet Cong hands after the meeting ended, presumably pending negotiations on getting them out of Cambodia, with which the U.S. has no relations...