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...eleven weeks-or another eleven hours for that matter. And many military men believe the Viet Cong are currently lying low, waiting for the rainy season in order to launch an all-out attack in the central highlands. Their probable aim: to capture a provincial town like Kontum or Quinhon, declare it the rebel capital, and thus win an important psychopolitical victory that could topple the Saigon regime. But if they fail (and clearly U.S. policy is determined to make them fail), then Dr. Quat's chances of surviving will climb another notch. And with him on that slippery...
Coming in Low. A truly versatile Jack-of-all-trades, McAllister until recently loaded his own smoke bombs (with which to mark guerrilla targets), owing to a shortage of hands at his base airport in Quinhon in Central Viet Nam. But it was in the cockpit of his light observation plane that he made himself a legend of skill and courage...
...after a year in Viet Nam, he was scheduled to go home to his wife Gail and a nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter in Victorville, Calif. Last Thursday afternoon, some U.S. Marine friends ran into him at a small airport at Phucat, just north of Quinhon in the Red-infested Binh Dinh province. It had been a rough day, McAllister said; his plane had suffered more hits than usual from ground fire...
...added: "I'll see you over a beer in Quinhon after I finish this last flight. I've got plenty to celebrate. I'm going home next week, and this is my last mission...
Digging In. Meanwhile the South Vietnamese were doing some new and welcome convoying of their own last week. Route 19, connecting the port of Quinhon with inland Pleiku, had been closed for a month because of the danger of ambush along its winding 100-mile course through the Viet Conginfested countryside. But with troops, armored cars and overflying helicopters as escorts, a 168-vehicle convoy punched through to Pleiku with 300 tons of much-needed supplies. Two days later, a 77-truck convoy repeated the trip...