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Expanding Monopoly. The narrative that emerged from the subcommittee hearings went like this: early in the Viet Nam War, Crum befriended three civilian officials of the Army-Air Force Regional Exchange in Saigon. They were in charge of transferring PX functions from the Navy to their own branch, and Crum put them up in a $1,600-a-month Saigon villa. He gave them a chef and maid service and provided them with large quantities of liquor and women. His reward: a $1,000,000 contract for jukeboxes in all American installations in Viet...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu made a painful decision early last week. He would have to put a new man in charge. At 7 one morning, he summoned Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, 41, his nation's most decorated and best-known soldier, to the presidential palace in Saigon. Then he told Tri that the job was his. The two men briefly discussed precisely how and when Tri would take over command of Lam Son 719 from I Corps commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam. After the talk, Tri boarded his helicopter to see how his troops were faring...
Mounting Skepticism. In Saigon, the popular mood was sullen, even acrimonious. Vietnamese complained that Lam Son was a U.S. concoction designed to accomplish U.S. goals and the ARVN was paying a dear price. Every hour, truckloads of fresh corpses rolled into the Bien Hoa military cemetery, where gravediggers had been ordered to double their normal 100-graves-a-week pace...
...Matter of Time. Though Administration spokesmen described the operation's goals in modest terms, sources in Saigon conceded that the original objectives were more ambitious but were being tailored to fit a disappointing performance. By last week...
With worries mounting about what was happening on Route 9, the normally unflappable General Creighton Abrams, U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, threw a monumental tantrum at his headquarters in Saigon. "You people are telling me what you think I want to know," he stormed at his intelligence officers. "I want to know what is actually happening." Said one source: "He was so mad he was dancing on the table tops...