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...command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother the allies. Surrounded by open country, Hué sits amid...
Mortar Bait. For the surrounded Marines at Khe Sanh, life is dreary days of digging deeper in their trenches and bunkers, ducking incoming fire, and cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact...
Reinforcements. Still, there were plenty of Reds left in the Rockpile area, their numbers steadily replenished from the fast-multiplying network of jigsaw trenches and concrete bunkers in the DMZ itself. There, according to Marine intelligence, a third North Vietnamese division-the 304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot...
...that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
...Plan-It. In this setup, Ferd Eberstadt, 52, will inevitably become Donald Nelson's second in command. He is used to taking charge. In World War I he interrupted his Columbia University law course to serve in France in the 304th Field Artillery, was wounded and rose to captain, was noted for commanding the best-drilled, best-disciplined battery in the 304th. Afterward he went to Wall Street as a corporation lawyer, soon was a partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started...