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Though he was the son of a successful Los Angeles realtor, David Gitelson, 26, lived in Viet Nam like the lowliest peasant. His home was a palm-frond shack in Ba The, a tiny Mekong Delta village 25 miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called...
...prosthetic hand, powered by muscles in his upper arm. Tran Van Lam, 13, will get artificial legs. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 7, has her left arm temporarily attached to her face so that its skin may provide her with new lips to replace those blown away. Nguyen Van Ba, 14, no longer has testes, but a bomb-blasted urethra has been repaired...
...North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, showing a healthy Nguyen Van Be holding Hanoi newspaper accounts of his vaunted end, have sent planes over Viet Cong areas broadcasting Be's voice. It was after such a plane passed over him that Be's cousin, Nguyen Va Ba, decided to defect. "I put my shovel down," he says, "and listened to the voice very carefully. I found it to be Be's true voice...
...claims made from South Viet Nam. They have reason to be jittery. Six Communist guerrillas who defected because of the revelations about Be report discontent and disillusion among those who heard of Be's miraculous emergence. "The soldiers will fight very hard for an ideal," says Nguyen Va Ba, "but Be's being alive shows that the ideal has untruth in it, which makes it harder for them to fight...
...emblazoned with a blue United Fruit Co. seal. Sales of bananas at Harvard Square groceries have tripled in the past week. Highlight of Manhattan's Easter Sunday "bein" in Central Park was a raggle-taggle mob brandishing a giant 3-ft.-long mock banana and chanting "Banana! Banana! Ba-nan-a!" as they snake-danced through the bemused multitude, cheered on by girls wearing banana crowns, while one student, dressed in a yellow slicker, tried to pass himself off as the biggest banana...