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...operating room at Danang East, two green-gowned Navy surgeons wielded their scalpels as Medical Corps technicians hovered around the table. But the patient was not one of the U.S. Marines for whose after-battle care the big Navy hospital was primarily in tended. She was Hoi Pham Tri, a tiny, frail Vietnamese girl...
Helping Ho. Tri Quang is his adopted name, and it means "brilliant mind." He was born Pham Bong on Dec. 31, 1923, in Diem Dien, a village in central Viet Nam now under Hanoi's rule. One of three sons of a well-to-do farmer, he was sent at the age of 13 to the Bao Quoc pagoda in Hué to train for monkhood. Wild and fond of practical jokes at first, he was expelled, then given a second chance. He matured into a student with a photographic memory and a searching intellect. His teacher at Bao Quoc, Thich...
...what is left of the enemy. At that point, exit the army and enter the region's own police force and popular forces, ready to defend themselves. A key to making this phase work will be the white-uniformed national police force ("the white mice") under Colonel Pham Van Lieu, who are already showing promise of developing into an effective countrywide law-enforcement agency. As one American says: "If the mayor of Cedar Rapids has a crime problem, he calls the cops, not the army. We want every village headman to be able to do the same...
This time the feeler was extended by a pair of professors from an Italian university-one of them was Giorgio La Pira, onetime mayor of Florence-who purportedly had interviewed Ho and his Premier, Pham Van Dong, early in November. Through U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, the would-be diplomatists reported breathlessly that Hanoi was now "prepared to initiate negotiations without first requiring actual withdrawal of American troops." In an echo of Lyndon Johnson, Ho was even quoted as saying: "I am prepared to go anywhere, to meet anyone...
...filing background color, though, Cameron is less a reporter than a conduit for North Vietnamese propaganda. He all but equates Hanoi, which has not been touched by bombs, with wartime London, which was hit heavily. He quotes officials, such as North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong, at interminable length, without any appraisal of what they are saying. When he passes the Russian SAM missile sites in the countryside, he loses his reportorial curiosity and does not question his hosts about them. "I talked rapidly of other things to save embarrassment...