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...Laos is cast as a mystery, "a story waiting to be finished," say authors Richard Pyle and Horst Faas, though from the outset the facts are fairly clear. The helicopter carrying Burrows and co., who were covering a doomed U.S.-supported offensive into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, received a direct hit from enemy antiaircraft fire and plunged burning into the jungle. Chances of survival: almost nil. For Pyle and Faas, a reporter and a photographer who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, this book is both a public tribute and a personal pilgrimage that...
...parlance, "broken aircraft s___" for the tiniest bone fragment or tooth. Single bicuspids have been enough to identify some MIA, notes Pyle, as Vietnam was the first war in which the U.S. government kept dental records of every soldier. But Site 2062, a remote hillside near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, divulged few secrets beyond that mangled Leica and a sports watch that spookily survived the crash and ticked for another two days...
Harvard’s end was hastened by the absence of sophomore Alexis Martire, whose tonsillitis prevented her from making the trip. Freshman Lyly Cao Minh was left to make her team singles debut at No. 6, a trial-by-fire unlike any Graham could recall...
Minh’s 6-1, 6-0 singles defeat gave Stanford its second team point. The No. 3 doubles pairing of Minh and Bajin fell 8-0. The two had several chances to pull out games but could never quite finish...
...year ago, Harvard struggled at the No. 4 through No. 6 spots. But this year’s Crimson team is far deeper, even with Martire’s injury. Wang and Anderson have been on a roll, and Bajin had been, too, prior to her injury. Minh, at No. 6 for Harvard, is the wild card for Harvard—she has yet to play a singles match this spring...