Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARVN armored units, whirring over a repaired Route 9 and the beautiful Pone River, which marks the border. After ten or 15 minutes in the air, we hovered down in the middle of an expanse of brushwood alongside Route 9. Several ARVN troopers were having their midday dish of rice under the shade of a tank. One of them gestured at the ground and smiled: 'Laos...
Copter pilots, usually men aged 25 and younger, take 32 weeks of flight training, arriving in Viet Nam with at least 210 hours of flying time. Often they fly "pigs-and-rice" or "ash-and-trash" missions-supplying outposts, moving men, carrying mail. "But you do fly six hours a day, rarely over 3,000 feet, and over very wild country," says an Army colonel who did two hitches as a pilot in Viet Nam. "Everything is a challenge...
...Sock of Rice. Missing with Burrows was A.P.'s Henri Huet, 43. Born in Viet NaM. Huet had photographed the Indochinese war for more than 20 years and in 1967 was a Capa award winner. Also missing were U.P.L.'s Kent Potter, 23, a three-year Viet Nam veteran, and Freelance Photographer Keisaburo Shimamoto, on assignment for Newsweek. Their presumed deaths brought to 32 the number of newsmen killed in Indochina since...
...covered conflicts across the world-in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Cyprus and the Congo. But the lanky, gentle-mannered Englishman had very personal feelings about Viet Nam. "Be it exotic meetings with Madame Nhu, or sleeping on a stretcher on a Vietnamese patrol, or sharing a sock of rice with the Special Forces, this strange war fascinates me," he said. He could be diverted, but not for long. As LIFE Managing Editor Ralph Graves put it: "He spent nine years covering this war under conditions of incredible danger. We kept thinking up other, safe stories...
...figure me out-I was cynical enough even then to know that there must be loopholes, like rice for the peasants being sold to buy tanks, but I was so naive that I actually thought this man would admit to their existence-even describe them for me. Oh, well, even $50 million is a lot to spend to keep a country of two million in line. . . . And that was four years...