Word: hungering
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...first time, Communist prisoners and defectors are reporting hunger as a problem in Red ranks. The Allies are capturing their rice hoards and denying them the rice harvest of the peasants. Defections under Saigon's Chieu Hoi (open arms) amnesty program are running at a record 1,000 a month-and some 25% of them are officers. Above all, the massive infusion of U.S. troops, now some 275,000 strong, has taken the initiative away from the enemy. Not since the bloody battle of la Drang last November, when the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) destroyed 2,000 North Vietnamese...
...wield the most cumbersome logistical system since Hannibal brought his elephants over the Alps, winding down through the mountains and jungles of Laos and Cambodia. Captured diaries of infiltrators tell harrowing tales of the journey. Marchers carry 70-lb. packs up 40° slopes, cope with insects, snakes, mud, hunger, disease and even, occasionally, the attacks of wild animals. "Five of the men have died of malaria," observed one diarist. "Food situation getting critical," noted another, "will have to cut ration below 500 grams. The word tonight is that there is no rice stored at the next two stations...
Phillips Brooks House will exhibit all sorts of faces from 12 noon to 5 p.m. today. Photographs of "kids, patients, lovers and old rolks they say or even "hunger, need, want, love, hope and despair" it you look closely enough...
...soft blandishments of consecutive words but does it very well, particularly in two Costa translations. Derek Mahon, an Irish poet and Trinity man now in Cambridge, has conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always carry, but the bulk of he poem rings true...
...Hunger. Beyond that is the question of what Tri Quang will do if, as seems likely, a Buddhist-based government emerges from the elections. For all he says today, the specters of Communism and neutralism still hover over him from the past. The U.S. is inclined to take him at his word, let him prove his much avowed concern for the people of Viet Nam. Twenty years of war have left the Vietnamese with a desperate hunger for national identity, that no government since independence in 1954 has been able to provide. If he chooses to, Tri Quang...