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...reply to the Quinhon attack was the biggest air attack of the war. Within 18 hours, more than 100 Navy planes screamed off the decks of attack carriers, ducked under a cloud canopy that limited their ceiling to as little as 700 ft., and blasted a supply and staging base at Chanhhoa with everything from fragmentation bombs to 750-pounders. Two hours later, 28 Vietnamese Skyraiders and 28 U.S. jets from Danang hit a regimental-sized barracks at Chaple, just north of the partition line. Three U.S. planes were lost. Two of the pilots were quickly rescued, but the North...
...recent months, 20,000 Catholic peasants have descended from the mountainous central region to the coastal city of Quinhon, where most of them now huddle in eleven makeshift camps -5,000 live in the gardens of the local cathedral. Many fled because their villages were overrun by the Viet Cong, others because they feared it was about to happen. For quite a few it was a second exodus: they first moved when the Reds took over North Viet Nam ten years ago. North or South, Catholics are treated more harshly by the Reds than are Buddhists. There are, of course...
...Fight. In some villages, the entire Catholic population will pull up stakes, while their Buddhist neighbors stay behind. But Red roadblocks make getting out difficult for the refugees. Families often have to break up in order to slip away individually, usually by roundabout paths or jungle streams. In Quinhon. where the refugees are arriving at the rate of 300 a day, the homeless receive food from Catholic chari ties and medical care from American Franciscan sisters-though disease is inevitable in the fetid shantytowns...
...built highway runs west from Quinhon, but at one village, where the road cuts across a field, the drainage pipe was placed too high. Thus one side of the road is drowned while the other is parched, ruining 24 acres of the village's skimpy fields. The peasants are certain that the Americans would fix the pipe if they knew about it. But how does a peasant reach the Americans? Who would listen...