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...doubles matches proved equally strenuous. Kathy Fulton and Andy Okamura clicked for a 6-3, 6-3 thrashing of their adversaries and the freshman pair of Nina Cohen and Kathy Evans breezed...
Sophomores Katherine Fulton and Andy Okamura came a hairsbreadth away from being the day's only casualties. After booting the first set 3-6, the pair was down 6-5 in stanza two. They tied it up but then got back into trouble when the tie-breaker knotted up at 3-3. Fulton and Okamura finally prevailed in the tie-breaker 5-3 to take set two 7-6, and then they stroked their way to a 6-3 win in the finale...
Phat, a onetime Saigon architect and, like Photographer Okamura, a Buddhist, insisted-for what it was worth-that he was a Socialist, not a Communist. He said that the Viet Cong had initially followed the guerrilla tactics of Nguyen Giap, the victor of Dienbien-phu, but "now Giap's lessons are outdated. Times have changed. American weapons are different. Now, except for tanks and planes, we have everything we need. Our weapons are as good as the enemy...
Most of the Viet Cong weapons seen by Okamura were either homemade or of U.S. manufacture, with a sprinkling of identifiable Communist bloc arms. Phat scoffed at sizable outside aid, saying, "You don't understand the logistics. If we needed to supply only small units, it would be easy to get enough from Hanoi. But we have to supply a million people-V.C. political cadres as well as soldiers. We grow our own food. We have ordnance depots in the jungle where we make weapons-crude but serviceable." Besides, as he put it, "we get stronger every time...
...Okamura, 22 Ibs. lighter as a result of his ordeal, was finally released after 53 days. The Viet Cong returned all his possessions except two films with pictures of the photographer in conversation with Phat, which were forwarded to him later. Among the Communist's last words to Okamura was a warning that the Viet Cong planned to intensify terrorist reprisals such as the vicious bombings that killed 42 people aboard a floating restaurant in Saigon last week (see THE NATION). These will continue, he threatened, until "every single American is gone." As to the ultimate outcome...