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Inside the wards, Dr. Tran Cong Tuong, dean of the Surgery Department, walked with me as I saw for myself the results of the air attack. The son of the vice-director had been wounded. A physician, Liu Ty Tung, of the Traditional Medicine Department, received a severe concussion and suffered a broken car drum. A patient sitting near her was killed instantly. Chun Ty Mai, 13, daughter of a woman physician in the hospital, also suffered a concussion and had one big toe blown off. Her father had already died...
...have no answer." He adds: "There is no disposition to go bounding in there with big flat feet." Still, there have been new violations of the Cambodian border by both American and South Vietnamese troops. Colonel Ernest Terrell, senior U.S. adviser in South Viet Nam's Kien Tuong province, exchanged caps and pleasantries with the chief of a border station just inside Cambodia. The colonel explained that he was under orders "to encourage meetings between Vietnamese and Cambodians." The White House insists that these ventures represent no change in U.S. policy. In fact, some at the State Department...
...intricate collecting and disbursement system runs right up the organization ladder to COSVN, and vouchers are required for all expenditures, adding to the snowstorm of paper circulating inside the V.C. administration. Corruption is dealt with severely, but it is persistently present. At least one tax collector in Dinh Tuong told the Allies that he was chosen "because my family was rich and the Front did not have to worry about whether I would flee with the cash...
...patrolling and night ambushes, Corson's 1,500-man battalion set up what he likes to call "my laboratory for capitalism." The first step was to engage the interest of the villagers, which Corson achieved by the un-Clausewitzean technique of teaching his men the local game: co tuong, a variant of chess that uses "elephants, cannon and 14th century infantry tactics." Corson himself took on the village champion, managed to achieve a tie. "The game gave us our breakthrough in overcoming the reserve of the people," he says. "Next step was how to help them make a buck...
...Tuong's death was another grim example of the Communists' use of terrorism and atrocity against South Viet Nam's 37,000 local officials, more than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed...