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Thank you for a story that did much to improve the gout sufferer's image [Feb. 18]. My husband's gout attack was met by others with a "ho, ho, ho" attitude and the usual remark, "That's the disease of the boozers and the high living." Now he ought to command a little respect with that painful...
Foiling the Fire Ants. At first, American troops simply destroyed the Red tunnel complexes. Then it became evident that intelligence, food, even weapons could be retrieved from them. In the vast Ho Bo Woods, 35 miles northwest of Saigon, U.S. troops found a 14-mile tunnel complex that contained some 100,000 documents-listing everything from names of Viet Cong terrorists to billet locations of every senior American officer in Saigon. Obviously, all tunnels would have to be explored...
...Lacouture's articulate, respected voice to bolster their own fledging protests against the Vietnamese war. After all, Lacouture is uniquely qualified by both historical precedent and personal experience to criticize the U.S. position there. He's been to Vietnam seven times, written three books on the subject, knows Ho Chi Minh, and was press attache in 1946 to General Leclerc in Saigon. Since then, he has become a Grand Reporter for Le Monde--a sort of French James Reston. And he has been Le Monde's man-on-the-spot at numerous major crises: the abduction of Ben Bella...
During the war, Lacouture twice met Ho Chi Minh (whom he calls "a shrewd comedian") and subsequently wrote the biography of this "pictureque and peculiar personality." When Ho dies Lacouture expects a bitter power struggle among his four lieutenants...
...peace lobbyists' motion was never brought to a vote. Instead, a group of senior Laborites dispatched a cable urging Ho Chi Minh to "agree to negotiate and leave the battlefield for the conference table...