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...worth, and at week's end the demonstrations boiled up dangerously. Some 5,000 turned out in Hué as a warm-up for the "Week of Anger" Tri Quang scheduled in the city this week. Another 10,000 marched in Danang. Government offices were looted in Qhi Nhon, where 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers-among them several senior officers-demonstrated. In Saigon, Buddhist students brandishing bicycle chains and sticks took to the streets, overturning autos, throwing rocks and chanting "Yankees go home" in the most violent and ugly outburst of the crisis thus...
...Look at It Now." Last week alone, the 10,000 men of the 18th Engineer Brigade were building a 10,000-ft. jet-fighter strip at Phan Rang, a floating dock that will double the capacity of the Qui Nhon harbor, a communications facility and a 60-bed hospital for the 1st Air Cavalry at An Khe, a 250,000-sq.-yd. ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling...
...Operation White Wing, mounted by 12,000 men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry, Vietnamese airborne and South Korean marines, the first division-size assault of the war. Target: the longtime Viet Cong strongholds between Qui Nhon and Chu Lai along the South China...
...this," raged the President. Next day, scores of U.S. Navy jets roared beyond the 17th parallel for the first time to plaster "bloodless" military installations in North Viet Nam. In return, the Viet Cong blew up a U.S. enlisted men's billet in the port city of Qui Nhon. This time the U.S. and South Viet Nam replied with a joint 160-plane raid...
...aircraft raised whirlwinds of cinnamon-colored dust and sand as white as snow. In the north, some 45,000 marines clustered around Hué, Danang and Chu Lai. The new 1st Cav settled at An Khe, just off Route 19, main artery leading to the beleaguered Central Highlands. Qui Nhon, Route 19's eastern terminus, was held by South Korea's crack 15,000-man Capital Division...