Page Six I HE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, February 7, 1973 Page Six H-iL MICHIGAN DAILY TROPICAL PARADISE Peace By HUGH A. MULLIGAN BIEN HOA, Vietnam () - The international peacekeepers on duty at this regional headquart- ers have something to write home about to Budapest, War- saw, Jakapta and Ottawa. Topless nymphs on light fixtur- es in the conference room. A swimming -pool brimming with bikinis right outside the barracks window. Slot machines in t h e zar, billiard tables in the mess hall and soul music blaring all day from a monstrous hi-fi. "And some of the biggest rats I' ever seen," said a Canad- ian officer. "I didn't know whe- ther to shoot them with my side- arm or go after them with a club." The regional team assigned to this headquarters of the Interna- tional Commission for Control and Supervision, 15 miles north- east of Saigon, have taken up re- sidence in the Bien Hoa Club, a roadhouse that in the days of war catered to the after-hour team settles in Navy probes hr"t ho IJexplosion uarry s lk , - ar '%,,.,/' i~ A r w t../ i/ joys of American airmen at the nearby jet base. Out back,, behind the tennis courts, the words "massage par- lor" loomed in large letters, over a long row of tiny rooms where prostitutes used to hold shop. "Closed since April." lamented the Vietnamese manager. "The government banned frivolity and ordered seriousness." more comfortable regional sites in the country," the colonel said with a straight face. With fellow colonels from In- donesia, Poland and Hungary, he had just come down from the conference room, which only the day before had been a rooftop night club with bandstand, pur- ple walls and bare-bosomed plas- ter cuties protruding from the fire violations. Marsh said they were expect- ing jeeps, scout cars and helicop- ters "any minute now" from the Americans, but they were still awaiting the Viet Cong delegate to the four-party joint military team before "getting rolling." In the meantime, they were still trying to get the telephones working and the office organiz- The sergeant, from Cold Lake, Alta., found Vietnam a pleasant place to be at that particular moment. "Back where I come from, it can get down to 50 below this time of year, and a chill factor of 85 below," he said. Pink flowers bloomed in pro- fusion on the balcony outside his window. Off in the distance stool the watchtowers and high brick- ed walls of a prison camp where several thousand North V i e t- namese and Viet Cong prisoners are undergoing final processing for eventual release. ...:.:: JAJ.: " ::.:N:."' :::.":"t.::"Y:. W:."l:l"::::.V." ...:: 5. .. ...........y................... ............. V. . . . . . . . . . . .... :f:i :::.':.:"N:...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **.**,*.. ~ *. .*.*.*"i:.* Topless nymphs . . . a swimming pool brimming with bikinis . some of the biggest rats I've ever seen." Said one colonel: "I'd is one of the more comfortable regional sites in the country." . . "and say this NEWPORT, R.I. (P)-The Navy opened an investigation yesterday into a boiler room explosion aboard a destroyer that left three sailors dead and four others ser- iously burned. 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