![]() ![]() The Saigon press corps has seen enough of the war in Vietnam to be appreciative. The nth battalion of the nth division reported a body count of seventy-seven at the conclusion of their Operation Andrew Carnegie.” A worthwhile endeavor in a war where events succeed each other without consequence like a series of ghastly traffic accidents. ![]() Granted they wear the magic cloak of military rank, still their performance is creditable, for they succeed in giving an artistic distance to the daily killing: “Three missions were flown yesterday against targets 320 miles northwest of Saigon. Their lines vary little, the drama is, of course, in the anticipation of a fine nuance brought to the familiar. Like clockwork, at five, the principals, Land, Sea, and Air, make their entrances in the same Olympian order. The show goes on every day including Sundays. They have, it must be said, adequate facilities: a windowless auditorium modeled, down to the smell, on the high-level theaters of Washington plush seats, banks of stage lights, dimmers, a discreet lectern for scenery-blown-up green and black abstractions on movable flats and drop curtains. ![]()
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