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...jungles of Vietnam, site of almost uninterrupted warfare from the 1940s through the mid-'70s. The conflict with the U.S., with its carpet- bombing and wholesale spraying of Agent Orange, was especially devastating. Thus it was something of a surprise that the first scientific foray deep into the Vu Quang Nature Reserve, near Laos, found what amounts to a "lost world" of animal and plant species...
...shrapnel wound in the back sustained in Phuoc Long province: "I did my duty. But after I was wounded, I wondered if the war was right or wrong. It cost so much. I still wonder." His roommate, Hoang Dinh Trung, 39, was similarly disabled in 1972 in Quang Tri province during a B-52 raid. "I was only 18 when I was mobilized," he says. "Looking back to wartime, it was awful. Really awful. I'm afraid of any more wars." When told that many American veterans share his feelings, he says tentatively, almost shyly, "I'd like them...
...Northerners' progress was weirdly effortless. They rolled across the Central Highlands. There the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) collapsed in headlong panic. The ARVN soldiers fought bravely elsewhere, notably around Xuan Loc, but the Communists drove steadily south. They overwhelmed all the place-names that had become so improbably familiar: Quang Tri, Hue, Danang, Kontum, Pleiku, Nha Trang...
...Communists hit in a hundred places, from Quang Tri near the DMZ in the north all the way to Duong Dong on the tiny island of Phu Quoc off the Delta coast some 500 miles to the south. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting...
...Thang Long bridge across the Red River is a strand of spanless girders; a much publicized Soviet highway from Savannakhet, in Laos, to Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...