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...atrocity against South Viet Nam's 37,000 local officials, more than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed in their mission to kill a major military leader, but did kill five soldiers and seven...
...Operation Van Buren, presided over by 2,500 troopers of the American 101st Airborne and South Korean marines, aimed at guaranteeing that the rice harvest would get to the peasants west of Tuy Hoa-and not to the Viet Cong...
Even more impressive were the sales and earnings reports that poured in like a gilt-edged harvest from company after company. From post-tax profits of $37.2 billion in 1964, U.S. companies increased earnings last year to $44 billion. The average industrial company's profit increased 13.4%, with the average dividend rising from $2.60 to $2.85. Buoyed by continuing profits from jet aircraft, the air-transportation industry led all others with a 54% increase in earnings. Electronics were up 48%, textiles 45% and TV manufacture...
...Operation Golden Fleece last fall, he deployed 10,000 marines throughout northern paddyfields to give Viet Nam peasants the most valuable present of all-security to harvest and sell their crops without interference. One result was that the Viet Cong had to boost their 10% "rice tax" on farmers to 60% in unprotected areas, with no rise in their popularity rating. More often, the G.I.'s effort is spontaneous. At Phu Bai, marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies...
Elapsed Time: 35 Minutes. There was no triage problem in the case of Marine Colonel Michael R. Yunck, 47. As operations officer of the First Marine Air Wing, Yunck had helped to plan Operation Harvest Moon; later he went out in a four-man armed "Huey" helicopter, directing fighter-bomber attacks south of Danang. He was about to call in a strike on a tiny, nameless hamlet when he looked down. His chopper was low enough for him to see women and children. It was also low enough for a Viet Cong machine gunner to sight in on the Huey...