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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tran Van Hai, 34, has been hiding out in Saigon's labyrinthine alleyways since 1965. Reason: he is trying to avoid military service. While his wife works as a vendor, Hai does odd jobs in the neighborhood; together they make enough to care for their six children. When the police come, as they do with increasing frequency these days, he ducks down the maze of passages in his ramshackle neighborhood or hides between the wall panels of his house...
...draft evasion carries any great stigma among most South Vietnamese, who are weary of a war that has gone on for 25 years. One reason is that family allegiance has traditionally been recognized as the highest loyalty, greater even than that due to one's country. Men like Tran Van Hai are protected by a closely knit community that admires their struggle to avoid military service. Another reason is the pervasive corruption that permits all but the poor to buy their way out of army duty...
...province chief, Colonel Tran Van Nhut, has managed to set up a system of rice rationing. Bags of rice are handed across a wire fence to those who can come to get them. When a wizened man with a stump of a leg hobbles up, he cannot quite negotiate his crutch and his rice. He collapses in a heap, trying to figure out some way of fastening his ration to his loincloth...
...Canyonesque veterans of the South Vietnamese air force are probably closer to the conventional American image of what fighter pilots are like than their American counterparts. Many VNAF pilots have flown more than 3,000 combat missions. Currently, the Thieu regime is mounting a morale-stiffening campaign around Captain Tran The Vinh, a Vietnamese ace who was credited with knocking out 21 North Vietnamese tanks before he died two weeks ago, at the age of 25, in the crash of his shell-torn Skyraider. Posters of Vinh, making a jaunty thumbs-up sign, appeared all over Saigon last week...
...unreal sense of well-being extended even to a dark, sandbagged burrow on the town's south side where ARVN Major, Tran Ai Quoc, had set up a command post. As his battery of radios crackled in the background, Quoc reported that the situation around the town was quiet. It had better be. His retinue of lieutenants and enlisted men had been drinking Ba Muoi Ba brand beer and De Kuyper crème de menthe. An attack then would have been a disaster...