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...Negotiate, Baby." Thousands of wives and girlfriends of newly drafted servicemen buy the record. Lyrics include: Don't ya negotiate, baby, I just don't know what to think, babe, Like them creeples say to do. 'Bout them pacificisters and such. Let our love burn like napalm, baby; We're keepin' US offs the brink, babe, Let it tingle like Asian flu. And, oh yeah, I love ya so much...
...when I was ten. I kept a full-time job while scrimping my way through high school. To get through college, I worked two jobs, slept only four hours a night. Now I can reap the benefits: a chance to become emasculated in a Viet Nam foxhole, to drop napalm bombs on women and children, to experience dysentery and malaria. Strive on, Horatio. Well, to hell with the U.S.A., Viet Nam and the Great Society. I've had it. I am on my way to Rio de Janeiro to open a pet shop selling armadillos to Chilean soccer players...
...freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited as a full-fledged war correspondent. His first taste of enemy fire came during a Skyraider napalm attack on a Viet Cong stronghold in Zone...
...constant mortar and recoilless rifle barrage, fanatical assaults by wave on wave of mustard-uniformed North Vietnamese regulars, the endless thrum and thunder of close air support ("The Skyraiders looked like they were wired nose to tail," marveled one survivor), night after night in which land flares and blazing napalm turned the landscape into a Bosch-like rendering of the pit. By the end of the siege, only three of Plei Me's dozen Special Forces men were unwounded and on their feet. But the Americans were all ready to fight some more. "Are you a tiger, Swanson...
...hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets can be over the target with almost any combination of weapons he might need: .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, cannon shells, Bull-Pup missiles, Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields, Chu Lai, leveled and surfaced with aluminum matting by the Seabees in less than 30 days last spring, the runway is still so short that the jets take off in a double-throated roar of engines...