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Viet Tribe Blasts Red 'Liberators' Escapee Guides Green Berets To Jungle Camp (Continued from Page 1)
the Special Forces camp at nearby Trung Dung. The Green Berets then hatched their plan to take more of the Montagnard slaves away from the enemy. Planes Fill Air
The next day the air over the mountain beside the slave camp Quang had fled was filled with airplanes. In the lead chopper, Quang with Lt. Tom Ross of Pensacola. Fla., pointed down toward the village hidden in the jungle. Four gunships swooped in belting the section of the mountain below the village where the Viet Cong were quartered with rockets and machine gun fire. Now an Air Force psychological operations plane piloted by Maj. Kenneth Moses of Rush City, Minn., dipped dangerously low over the mountain, its loudspeaker blaring a tape of Quang's voice to the villagers. |
Ten other choppers whirred down and deposited troops around
the corn field which was to be the pickup point for the villagers. The troops
fanned out to engage the Viet Cong and rescue the Montagnard. Amidst the gunfire the Montagnard ventured out, at first in pairs, then in threes and fours, frightened by the ear-blasting roar of the hovering brown birds but more afraid of the hell behind them. Then they came in a babbling rush, crowding into the choppers, bony, dark, bare-breasted women with scabby-headed babies, naked big-eyed children with see-through ribs, men with gaunt faces and horny feet and so skinny you could pick them up with one hand. The choppers made trip after trip to deliver them from their "liberators." B a c k at Trung Dung a newsman asked Quang through an interpreter what he told his people on the tape. "I told them the Communists are liars," said Quang. rubbing the rope burns on his arms. "I tell them that the Communists are - - -." "Didn't you like the Communists at all?" "I hate them. I want to fight against them. I hate them." |
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