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...capital lulled by repeated boasts that the military war was being won, the strength and duration of the Red offensive came as an unpleasant, even humiliating surprise. In the midst of his own headquarters outside Saigon, U.S. Commander General William C. Westmoreland was forced to take refuge in a windowless command center. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker had to be whisked to a secret hideout...
...hand-to-hand combat. All told, the Communists attacked from 18 different points around Tan Son Nhut, getting close enough to MACV to put bullets through Westy's windows. Westmoreland's staff officers were issued weapons and sent out to help sandbag the compound, and Westmoreland moved into his windowless command room in the center of MACV's first floor. Other Communist units raced through the city shooting at U.S. officers' and enlisted men's billets (BOQs and BEQs), Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's home, Westmoreland's home, the radio and TV stations. Wearing ARVN clothes, raiders seized part...
...Glass Cab. Momyer's operations are housed in three closely guarded, windowless buildings on the Tan Son Nhut airbase. He arrives at 7 a.m. every day to read the reports on the previous night's raids, then assembles his staff in his war conference room to plot the day's operations, using weather and intelligence reports and checking reconnaissance slides projected on an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. screen. He has authority on his own to strike at some 200 existing targets in North Viet Nam. When his intelligence turns up new ones he would like...
Time and again he would appear in the windowless second floor briefing room-where last week he told of his departure-to describe his latest economy move, ranging from less expensive bolts to closing superfluous military installations. By the end, he could claim savings of $15 billion a year...
Most neglected of all is the museum's 1,425-man staff. Shoved into windowless cubbyholes for offices, they keep electric fans running year-round to circulate the air. One darkroom, a converted closet, is so small that Chief Printer Anthony Allen "won't let anyone stay in there more than a quarter-hour." Corrugated iron roofing stift hides crumbling wreckage untouched since Nazi bombardiers blitzed London 27 years ago. To the delight of its readers, the Times recently discovered that "a race of wild cats" lives, loves and dies in the basement ventilating shafts...