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...have to carry lunch from now on. Moreover, the U.S. intends to spend much of 1967 scorching the enemy's earth all over Viet Nam. Next likely candidates are War Zone C, bordering on Cambodia and thought to conceal the Viet Cong's national headquarters; the U Minh "forest of darkness" in the delta; and Zone D just east of the Iron Triangle...
...value to fight over. But it is strategically situated at the axis of six other nations with which it shares common borders: Red China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers and construction workers. North Vietnamese troops operating in South Viet Nam frequently...
...their runs over the North, attempting by feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft and one-tenth of its total air strength...
...Stop Firing!" The Minh Quy hospital, supported by several small Roman Catholic charities, is now a complex of six whitewashed buildings that are almost as overcrowded as the old dispensary. For its 40 beds there are 120 patients; fortunately, many of them actually prefer to lie on mats on the floor or on porches outside the buildings. There are no minor illnesses. "When a Montagnard comes in from his village," says Dr. Smith, "we take it for granted that he's malnourished, mostly from protein deficiency, that he has intestinal parasites and also malaria. After that, we ask what...
...mothers," so she worked for two years at a miners' hospital in depressed Appalachia. When that closed, Dr. Smith went to a Catholic women's organization, the Grail, and volunteered for overseas mission work. Now she has no time to be bored. In 3½ years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients who show up for treatment during clinic hours. The Viet Cong give Dr. Smith no direct trouble, probably because the Montagnards have formed a living shield around the woman they now call Ya Pagang...