Fourth International Publications

The International’s English-language periodicals: World Outlook, Inprecor and their companions, 1958–1994

Business As Usual

World Outlook Vol. 4, No. 11, 15 April 1966 · p 15 · 99 words

USUAL .

The missionaries sent by Johnson: to implant the ‘American Way of Life in Vietnam are. doing a first-rate job. The Army's Special. Forces -~ the jungle-trained fighters in green berets -- have been doing a booming business selling blood-stained "Vietcong battle flags" heroically captured in hand-to-hand struggles.

‘Trouble was...overproduction. Saigon police arrested a seanstress who had thirty new flags of the enemy in her possession. Turned out she was delivering-an order to the green berets. The | "elite" trampled the freshly sown flags in the mud and sprinkled them with chicken blood. Price? A mere $25 each.

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