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...race track, apparently mixing with civilians to avoid detection. Allied mopping up around Saigon may have yielded an important catch. The government professed "80% certainty" that one enemy body found was that of North Vietnamese Major General Tran Do, 48, political chief and second deputy commander of the Liberation Army. A final fingerprint check was awaited to determine if it really...
What They Can Do. Nothing can save Nguyen Phat Luom's right eye, destroyed by a grenade, but Boston doctors are building him a prosthetic hand, powered by muscles in his upper arm. Tran Van Lam, 13, will get artificial legs. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 7, has her left arm temporarily attached to her face so that its skin may provide her with new lips to replace those blown away. Nguyen Van Ba, 14, no longer has testes, but a bomb-blasted urethra has been repaired...
...seven young patients, there is no better example of what C.O.R. can do than Tran Huu Nhon. When the car in which he was riding triggered a mine, Nhon, 14, was maimed by metal shards and searing gasoline. It took two days to reach Nhi Dong Children's Hospital in Saigon, and infection had spread across the burned one-third of his body. Skin grafts failed and Nhon's right hand was amputated, a typical last resort in Viet Nam. The raw burns on his head, arms and legs wept precious protein fluids he could not spare...
...more body weight in eight weeks at Mount Zion. His malnutrition is halted, the infection in his burns gone. Carefully engineered blood transfusions preceded a new round of skin grafts, this time successful. The virus-plagued knee cartilage is destroyed, but the joint will be fused; some day, Tran Huu Nhon will walk again in Viet...
...headquarters soon appeared doomed. Punching through the wire, the Viet Cong raced from building to building, setting each afire. They silenced the bunkers one by one, dropping grenades through their slits. Soon only the command bunker and one other were still firing back, and in the command bunker Captain Tran Minh Cong and his twelve men were running out of ammunition. So Captain Cong radioed for Vietnamese army artillery to zero right in on his bunker. The artillerymen were reluctant to do so at first, but Cong, as he explained later, was unworried: "This is the best bunker in Viet...