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Charlie Company was fresh from a weekend in the seaside resort of Vung Tau-a prized opportunity for revelry and relaxation that comes only once every 45 days. The company has no barracks, no dress uniforms (they are stored in boxes at Bien Hoa) and no personal possessions (letters are the only personal items allowed in the field). The Vung Tau weekend, which the men enjoy in fatigues, is the only break in an endless cycle of ten-to 15-day patrols and three-day rests on a fire base with no hot showers and few other amenities...
...Line One." When we move out at dawn next morning, everyone is a bit more nimble, perhaps because the Vung Tau hangovers are gone. We walk all morning, stopping for a ten-minute break each hour. At the noon break, the radio sputters with orders from the battalion commander to a unit that has made contact with the enemy five miles away. There was an ambush; one American was killed when he walked into an NVA bunker complex. Another is wounded and a helicopter is down. The battalion commander, flying overhead in his helicopter, says he is going...
Soon afterward, during a three-day rest and recreation at the seaside town of Vung Tau, Calley saw six "mama-sans," Vietnamese women, machine-gunned on their way to market by South Vietnamese police simply because they were on the streets a half-hour before curfew lifted. "It was the first time," Calley said, "that it dawned on me that we weren't playing games, that we weren't supposed to be a bunch of Boy Scouts out there...
...tempered the bitter hostilities that have divided Cambodians and Vietnamese for centuries. Stung by the recent atrocities inflicted on the 500,000 ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia, the Saigon government has launched an effort to evacuate some of its vulnerable kinsmen. TIME Correspondent James Willwerth was aboard the Vung Tau, the lead LST in a fleet of 20 ships and small craft that last week carried 10,000 "refugees from their detention camps in Phnom-Penh 80 miles down the Mekong River to safety. His report...
Never mind the fact that Senator Bayh was one of less than a dozen who failed the state bar exam in 1960. Ignore the fact that Bayh was chosen National Alpha Tau Omega of the Year while at Purdue, for upholding the high standards of a segregated fraternity...