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...fortified village of Vinh Hoa was captured four times by U.S. troops last week without the loss of a single life. The Army, in fact, expects Vinh Hoa to save G.I. lives in combat, for the village, an exact replica of a typical Viet Cong settlement deep in the piney woods of eastern Georgia, is part of a new, expanded training program for Viet Nam-bound infantry troops...
Pajamaed Defenders. To help the Army achieve that aim, the 3rd Brigade's 419-man teaching cadre, 31 of whom are Viet Nam veterans, spent six weeks building Vinh Hoa, which they named for the Rev. Nguyen Lac Hoa, a Catholic soldier-priest who began fighting the Viet Cong in 1959. The instructors' wives wove grass rugs and made clay cooking pots, while children helped to fashion the village's huts and whittled vicious punji stakes of bamboo. For added authenticity, chickens were let loose to roam the village...
Extra Rations. Besides attacking Vinh Hoa, the trainees learn to set up and patrol a defense perimeter, detect enemy booby traps and set out their own, establish listening posts; they spend 29 hours practicing night defense and are taught to catch wild animals to supplement their C rations. They also see a full-size Viet Cong prisoner stockade, including a solitary-confinement pit, and learn how to evade their captors' questions. Even at night, G.I.s in the main camp are liable to be attacked by "terrorists" from Vinh Hoa. Above all, they are taught to be on the alert...
...Anyway, the thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold and diamond elephants, the opal stickpin, the emerald cuff links and the rest that she posted a $10,000 reward...
...strikes against North Viet Nam have been directed primarily against what air intelligence officers like to call the "ganglia" of Communist transportation and communications. Right from the start, the most dangling ganglion of the lot has been Vinh, the largest town in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, and the hub of road, rail and trail routes to the south. Last week U.S. Air Force and Navy planes once again pasted Vinh-this time with 77 tons of bombs. The prime targets now lie closer to Hanoi, and there last week the U.S. lost another fighter-bomber to North Vietnamese...