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Still, students could not help but be wary. The troop reduction was coupled with the first American bombings of Cambodia, a neutral country. Campus protests increased in the wake of continued American involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia...
Newly declassified Pentagon records reveal that themilitary ordered troop maneuvers during nuclear bomb tests in the 1950'sin order to convince soldiers that radiation was not a serious threat. Concerned that American troops were inordinately afraid of nuclear radiation after reading and viewing disturbing news accounts of the radiation damage in Hiroshima, the Pentagon ordered the maneuvers to give troops "an emotional vaccination." As a result, many troops sustained serious radiation-related illness. While such a decision seems bizarre and unethical by today's standards,TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays it must be weighed in the context of the time...
...help for the most grievously wounded. Area hospitals meanwhile launched their emergency plans, clearing out as many patients as they could to make room for the casualties. Within hours 100 volunteer doctors had shown up at St. Anthony, the hospital closest to the scene. Fifteen members of Boy Scout Troop 120 arrived to help with blood collection...
...helicopters. Bao Ninh, a corporal with a reconnaissance team of the North Vietnamese Third Army, recalls lying on the roof of a three-story concrete building at the edge of a runway on the morning of April 29 and studying the vast air base through binoculars, "trying to find troop placements. And you could see it was just chaos. People running back and forth. Some people--mostly women and children, no men--just waiting, with bags and suitcases. I guess they were hoping to get out, but the airport was already blocked." An American C-130 did manage to land...
...crypto-anarchists grab some Jolt from the wet bar and troop out, so now it's just me, Mom and Dad in the skybox. Dad points at the field with the stem of his pipe. ``Those 27 folks down there,'' he says. ``They didn't get any help from you, did they...