Word: vc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even with the sale of a story and pictures to Parade Magazine about the mortaring incident at the Thieu-Ky inauguration. He and his camera were close to the spot where Vice President Humphrey, Ambassador Bunker and General Westmoreland were to be, had not rain forced the ceremonies inside. VC mortar landed square on the spot and the Dartmouth man was in luck...
...International Voluntary Services house. During the day I tried to get to know Saigon and imagine what it might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created so much air pollution that I wonder why the VC don't wrap their weapons in oil cloth and sit tight for two or three years while emphysema kills off all the city people in Vietnam--a new aspect of the war of attrition theory). Concertina wire surrounds every building or monument of size. The children here are as familiar...
...chance to get out into the countryside visiting Long Ai, about 40 kilometers south of Saigon. This trip would be out of the question at night because Long Ai is the heartland of Vietcong insurgency. The VC must drink lots of coffee with their schedule of killing by day, killing by night...
...Vietnamese, is their answer to Sun Valley, Palm Beach and White Sulphur Springs. Both sides regard it as one of the trophies in this war and consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals use it for their R & R and there are serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet of this place almost becomes repugnant--all you have to do is read the Saigon Post or listen to the radio to know that Da Lat is leading a charmed life. IVS hired an excellent old gentleman to tutor...
...come a little closer to Dalat last week when a dam and power station outside of town were sabotaged by the VC. The resulting flood wiped out a quarter mile of the Phan Rang/Nha Trang road (the coastal road). Gasoline and rice used to be brought into Dalat by this road. Speculation is that both commodities will be rationed until the road is repaired--and that could take months. That's too bad--just getting used to 'com' (rice) and the lack of buoyancy of landrovers, Vespas, and jeeps on the pot-holed and dirt roads