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...interracial amity: vicious racist graffiti from both sides mar the walls of latrines in Saigon; whites and Negroes slug it out on occasion along the nighttown streets of Tu Do and in "Soulsville," the Negro's self-imposed ghetto of joy along Saigon's waterfront. Sometimes they shoot it out. Like their people back home, many Negro G.I.s are skeptical of the aims of the war. Nonetheless, of scores of Negro servicemen interviewed by TIME in Viet Nam, all but a few volunteered the information that they were there to serve their country, however badly it may have...
...capital's waterfront. In the honky-tonks, they can dig the big beat of the Supremes singing Come See About Me or the kinky cool of Ahmad Jamal's Heat Wave, bop about the bars in their "shades" (sunglasses) and talk "trash" (shoot the bull). The girls of Soulsville -many of them dark-skinned Cambodians or the daughters of French Senegalese soldiers-are less costly and usually less comely than their sisters on white-dominated Tu Do Street near by. The "in" spot in Soulsville is the L. & M. Guest House, a bar-restaurant and record booth...
...first elected 1952, and in his own words "renewed and rebuilt" the city of New Haven. Much of the worst slums of New Haven, near the waterfront, were razed early in Lee's tenure. He is about to begin renewal of the Hill neighborhood, but is opposed by citizen's associations made up of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in the area...
...wake of Westmoreland's visit, Administration spokesmen are pointedly leaving the door open to the possibility of further air raids. Among the possible targets are the remaining MIG bases, particularly Phuc Yen; two big power plants near Hanoi; and, above all, the Haiphong waterfront, through which 70% of the North's war supplies are funneled...
...huge undertaking. Bedford-Stuyvesant houses something like 350,000 people in its 464 city blocks. That's a population the size of Rochester's, an area equivalent to downtown Boston from the waterfront to Back Bay. The neighborhood supports few businesses that are not owned by whites who live elsewhere, and few lucrative businesses of any type. A third of Bedford-Stuyvesant's household are headed by women; on warm days, their children clog the sidewalks and whatever part space there is. Unemployment is high, especially among youths who drop out of school. "At my school," one girl said recently...