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...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...
...Uong). Three special C.R.A. centers handle operations not only in South Viet Nam but in Cambodia and Laos as well. Terrorists and saboteurs receive a special six-month course in Haiphong, learning how to blow up everything from ships to oil storage tanks. One pint-size James Bond named Tran Van Bui was out fitted with an automatic pistol (plus silencer), explosives and a small knife that could inject poison...
...FACE OF THE ENEMY. Much of the U.S. report is based on interrogation of Viet Cong prisoners, and beneath the statistics and organizational framework, the individual face of the enemy comes into human focus. Major Tran Quoc Dan had been fighting since the age of 15 as a Viet Minn regular. But at 33, after joining the Viet Cong, being wounded, and leading 45 separate attacks, he said his farewell to arms and defected. As the report put it: "Most of all, he was tired of killing other Vietnamese...
Even more elaborate were the preparations concerning Senior Captain Tran Van Tan of the central intelligence organization. Tan and three other Viet Cong agents were sent south to set up a clandestine radio station. The move was by sea, and the fledgling spies were outfitted with false identity papers, voting cards and fishermen's permits, then sent aboard an actual fishing boat. They were even trained in fishing skills so their covers would hold up. Aboard the boat they carried six sealed boxes containing guns, a generator, several radios and a bundle of South Vietnamese currency. But no sooner...
...real mover behind it all, declared Thao, was General Tran Thien Khiem, South Viet Nam's ambassador in Washington. But the timing of the revolt evidently came as a surprise to the ambassador, who was sound asleep in his Maryland home at the time. Hurriedly, Khiem cabled Thao pledging "total support." He should have stayed...