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Whether it is an official's boozy binge or a black-market expose, every scandal in South Viet Nam is aired for all the world to see. North of the 17th parallel, however, Hanoi seldom publishes a bad word about how things are going in the land of Ho. When a shortcoming is publicized it is generally done in the way sins are cited in a revival meeting: to urge the faithful on to ever-greater exertions. Judging from some recent Red sermonizing, Saigon has no monopoly on errant human nature...
...trees, but the infantryman must slog forward, sinking up to his knees at times in oozing, smelly mud, wading through canals that cut across the fields every few hundred yards, and finally rushing into the village to overrun the enemy's positions. Vietnamese troops, who seldom weigh much more than 100 Ibs., move with considerable ease through the mud and can keep going from sunup to dark. Heavier Americans find themselves sinking deep into the slime, and U.S. advisers usually go on several short missions before they can take a full day's punishment in the paddies...
...took over in 1963, it proved all too true. Though smart, sincere and honest, Erhard did not care to dirty his hands in the invariable give-and-take of political battle. He expected the voters to follow him out of gratitude, and for a while they did. But politicians seldom survive long on gratitude. When a slowdown in industrial activity frightened the coal miners of North Rhine-Westphalia last July, they deserted the Christian Democrats, demolishing Erhard's reputation as the country's No. 1 Wahllokomotive (vote puller...
...learn, as the Viet Cong have, that in a water war, ammunition belts corrode and uniforms and boots can rot within a week. Finding adequate amounts of dry land for base camps will also be a problem. A good rest area is essential: even the long-inured Vietnamese seldom stay out in the field for more than 24 hours at a stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that...
...alarmist when they rather breathlessly predicted a "spectacular mass killing" to be staged by the Viet Cong in Saigon before this fall's elections. Yet it is the nature of their column to prepare readers to expect the worst. "It's been said of us that we seldom have anything nice to say about anybody," says Evans. "This is basically true. We are interested in arrangements, deals, quid pro quos. We try to shed light on the subterranean transactions that underlie all politics...