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...army fighting in Vietnam and we cannot believe those stories which always cradled the misery of the poor peoples. We were, as President Johnson said, the "vital shield of freedom," but we were the only ones to believe that and finally this shield was only covered with blood and mud. We were also, as he said, "the guardians at the gate" against the communist aggression; but what kind of aggression is it when the Vietnamese people are in their own country, arbitrarily divided, when the only foreigners in Vietnam are the troops of a western people, who also defend...
Welfaring Natives. The capital city of Kuwait, a mud-walled, back-desert town before 1946, when the country's oilfields were first tapped for export, is now a modern city. It has broad, tree-lined boulevards, starkly modern office and apartment buildings and 2.3 window air conditioners (some placed in mud walls) for every resident. Kuwaitis have no taxes, receive free education and medical service, pay as little as $1.40 a month for modern, government-erected housing. Anyone who needs employment is hired by the government, often in such make-work jobs as operating automatic elevators and opening...
...where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
...ditches are filling, and Viet Cong units will soon be back to a favorite mode of transportation: elusive sampans. The riot of rain-fed foliage in the jungles and swamps provides better concealment for the Red guerrillas, while battle-weary government troops are compelled to slog through waist-deep mud. To both sides the monsoon brings misery: boots and web belts rot, weapons rust even under oilcloth, leeches drop from wet branches, and a thin green slime covers everything...
Unlike their Viet Cong comrades in South Viet Nam, the Pathet Lao are a conventional fighting force equipped with trucks and armored cars that bog down in the monsoon mud. Moreover, the Laotian anti-Communists now have effective insurgent bands afield in Red territory. They consist mainly of 6,000 American-supplied Meo tribesmen, tough little primitives skilled in the savage techniques of ambush and night assault. Meo loyalty has been sealed by a U.S. airlift of rice ($6,500,000 worth this year alone), which feeds 160,000 tribesmen. Along with the kernels come rifles, grenades and ammunition...