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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told that there are thousands of refugees streaming into Saigon, but we neveer see the details of a city slum. Although the film was made in 1965, when there were about 150,000 American soldiers in the country, we see a total of two dozen Americans, usually "advisers" on patrol. We are told that the war is everywhere, yet we only sees shots fired in combat twice in the whole film, both aimed at distant targets...

Author: By Rand K. Rosenblatt, | Title: Vietnam in Turmoil | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Suddenly a Sparrow. The first encounter took place just north of Hanoi as four Air Force F-4C Phantom II jetfighters, flying "CAP" (Combat Air Patrol) for a bombing strike on the Bac Giang bridge linking Hanoi with China, headed down to their orbit area. At 18,000 feet they picked up "bogies" on their radar, and wheeled to intercept them. Within minutes they spotted six MIG-175 flying level in close formation below them. The MIGs jettisoned their external gas tanks, split up, and with cannons winking, climbed to meet the Phantoms' attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Duels in the Sun | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

American military police do patrol the compound and check the pass of each G.I. entering. Vietnamese girls who want to work in Disneyland must obtain a special entertainer's card and visit An Khe's clinic once a week for a medical examination by Vietnamese doctors and a U.S.-provided shot of a long-lasting penicillin-type drug to suppress disease. Forced to choose between morality and the morale of their men, the division's officers are clearly troubled by Disneyland. But, as one colonel explained, "We wanted to get the greatest good for our men with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Disneyland East | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Viet Cong sniper had opened fire on a group of refugees near a Catholic church, killing a baby. The Nungs, tough fighters of Chinese ancestry, ran a patrol out after him, picked up a Vietnamese without any identity papers -as the Viet Cong usually travel. After 15 minutes hanging upside down, he confessed to being the sniper, was cut down unharmed and hauled off to prison. So reported the photographer Sean Flynn, 24, the son of Errol Flynn, who has been following the action in Viet Nam for three months as a combat correspondent for Paris-Match. Flynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Angle Shots | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...interview later, DeGuglielmo defended the study. "It's not an investigation and it's not intended to be," he said. "It should make no difference to the policeman if he's told to patrol on one street or another. A greater incidence of crime on one street or another shouldn't raise any controversy...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Council Considers $18,000 Study Of Cambridge Police Department | 4/30/1966 | See Source »

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