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...continued to chat mechanically. I've learned how to do that with her. I can think about things. Johnson's boy said his patrol caught a young Vietnamese girl smuggling information in a bamboo shoot inserted in her vagina. She was on the way to the Viet Cong. Gooks he calls them. The Gooks had just murdered some Christian missionaries, so there was considerable ill feeling at the time. His patrol raped the girl. Then they have some guy shove an M-16 up her vagina and keep his finger on the trigger. My wife works for planned parenthood...
...enemies to kill the Premier, had eventually confessed to being a Communist agent. Inevitably, in the conspiratorial atmosphere of Vietnamese politics, there were those who preferred to believe that the assassination attempt had been a dark and sinister plot hatched against Huong by foes inside the government. The Viet Cong's publicists did not offer any enlightenment, since dissension within the government is, for them, the next best thing to outright assassination...
...along at full power, the craft climbed rapidly to 12,500 ft. before leveling off for the hour-long return flight to Saigon. McLaughlin's desire to gain altitude quickly, a routine precaution among pilots in Viet Nam, was heightened in this case both by the Viet Cong's post-Tef offensive and by the unusual payload that he was carrying. Back in his plane's cargo compartment, attired in green Army fatigues, 45 Americans-businessmen and journalists-slumped wearily in bucket seats after a fact-finding trip into Viet Nam's war-riddled countryside...
...they clambered into cockpits of Air Force Phantom fighter-bombers at Cam Ranh Bay, 200 miles northeast of Saigon, and drank rice wine through bamboo reeds with Montagnard tribesmen in the Central Highlands. In Pleiku, they visited a hospital filled with Vietnamese civilians who had been injured by Viet Cong rockets. Circling in helicopters, they watched an allied air strike against the enemy...
...near the busy base and, in the bloody fighting that ensued, a battered little church changed hands several times. The battle did not turn until fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships, taking off little more than a mile away, saturated the Communist positions with rockets and napalm. A few Viet Cong staggered out of the inferno, bleeding and holding their weapons over their heads in surrender, but more than 200 of their comrades lost their lives in the ruins of the hamlets...