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Matagulay said that the Viet Cong moved freely over the countryside and that in the villages peasants freely offered rebels food and shelter. The typical menu for both prisoner and captors was rice, salt and fish oil. Rats were an occasional delicacy that brightened the diet-served both as rat soup and barbecued rodent. Though game was plentiful, the Reds never hunted. "They were afraid to use up ammunition hunting deer," said Matagulay...
...building] has a protection factor of four or better, which means the shelter is 100 to 149 times safer than the outside, and can hold 40 people, it is [considered] a fallout shelter," explained Tonis...
Tonis anticipates little actual shelter construction or building modification. "The Engineers feel we have good natural shelters." He added, "In the future, though, we may make minor improvements...
Quite recently Tonis received 61 "area survey charts" prepared in the government study by the U.S. Army Engineers. These charts estimate the value of a building or enclosed space as a fallout shelter. With this information available, Tonis expects to start work right away...
Though all civil defense information passes through Tonis' hands, the Corporation has the ultimate responsibility in determining which "shelter areas" are to be readied...