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...incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only weeks earlier, American advisers had requested that the dock be better guarded, but received no response. On the evening after the Card explosion, eight U.S. servicemen in Saigon were wounded when a terrorist on a bicycle threw a bomb...
...CORE people continued to yell, and Secret Servicemen stirred uneasily. Johnson cut the ribbon, then stood straight and unsmiling while a Marine band played the national anthem. Secret Service Chief James Rowley removed his hat-but he held it with his left hand and kept his right ominously in his coat pocket. Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman was so unnerved by the disturbance that he forgot to take off his hat until the final few bars of the anthem were played. "This is certainly disgraceful," muttered Harriman. Later, when the President was asked what his reaction...
...opened up with machine guns, wounding three. In the midst of the rebellion, the left-wing marine commander resigned, later to be restored; then the conservative navy minister resigned, to be replaced by one of the navy's most outspoken leftists. The new minister meekly gave the mutinous servicemen full pardons and weekend passes. But for several tense hours, Rio was a trigger pull away from widespread violence-even civil...
...weather. During summers the place is drenched by interminable rains (160 inches annually); in winter the temperature rarely drops below 0° F., but a year's snowfall has been measured at more than 70 ft. Winter winds blow a steady 80 m.p.h., with gusts hitting 135 m.p.h. Servicemen there rarely went outdoors in the winter without good reason. Indoors could be unnerving too, since the region is subject to frequent earth tremors...
...advisers" to the government against the Viet Cong, the 16,000 American servicemen may give no orders, and gripe sessions in the U.S. barracks pour forth stories of daily duodenals. There was, for example, the time not long ago when three government battalions totaling 1,400 men encountered a single Viet Cong sniper, who fired three shots, then fell silent. But the government commander refused to dispatch a patrol after the sniper, explaining: "If we send men out there he might start shooting again." The three battalions painstakingly skirted their way past, at the cost of an hour...