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...effect of war on Viet Nam's preadolescents is just as devastating. The records of Saigon's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery are full of case histories of childhood gone awry. A 13-year-old named True was running in the fields outside Nha Trang when he stumbled upon a fountain pen. Shouting to his friends, he placed the pen in his mouth and bit into it; it turned out to be a Chinese-made plastique bomb that destroyed half his face. Similarly, a 15-year-old named An was raiding a garbage heap...
December 1970: The Saigon news paper Trang Den says Martine and her mother are impostors, and the real Martine is found hauling 110-lb. cement bags in a Saigon factory. A Paris paper quotes Tran Van Lam, Saigon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as saying: "We haven't dared tell him yet, but there are at least 17 other candidates for the role of Martine Bokassa...
Often, racial tensions will set off a fragging. In Nha Trang last week. 4th Infantry Division Private Willie Clayborne Jr. went on trial for the murder of a white sergeant. For some time Clayborne had felt "hassled" by whites in general. Last September he grabbed his M16, put it on automatic and gunned down the sergeant and two other soldiers in three quick bursts. As he fired, he repeatedly screamed "Lifer!"-a derisive term for a career soldier...
Local government tends toward the chaotic. Some cities, like Nha Trang and Bien Hoa, are actually only hodgepodge collections of sprawling villages, which lack overall central control; each of the villages is tightly run by a mayor who is directly appointed by province chiefs. Saigon is run by the national government, which has too many problems to give the capital the attention it needs. Whatever the system, the cities are plagued by the lack of trained career employees who could provide efficient administration...
...their own moral values or even their country. In Viet Nam, this knowledge is being applied by treating the battle-shocked man not as an individual but as part of his unit. Men like Major Joel Kaplan, 33, who heads the U.S. Army mental hygiene clinic in Nha Trang, recognize a number of stress syndromes that can tear the unit apart -and, in so doing, generate individual psychiatric casualties...