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...been flying up to 100 sorties daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province, deep in the Mekong River Delta, the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) has systematically nibbled away at Viet Cong positions...
Saigon statisticians claimed that at least 821 enemy troops had been killed in action in the few days since Cease-Fire II had been signed, while ARVN losses totaled 218. By the Saigon command's own admission, however, most contacts in recent days have amounted only to mortar and rocket exchanges. What fighting has occurred has been limited to the Chuong Thien province in the Mekong Delta and Kontum in the Central Highlands. In the northerly I Corps area, virtually no combat has been reported. Said a Western diplomat: "The combat statistics show that incidents are only a fifth...
Across the river from the dead city, the Viet Cong recently erected a huge green flagpole; their banner flutters merrily as ARVN and NVA loudspeakers hurl epithets at each other...
...Viet Nam's northern border, Hanoi continued building its supply roads through the Demilitarized Zone into the northern provinces of South Viet Nam, in violation of the January agreement. Far to the south, week-long clashes in the Mekong Delta, according to Saigon, left 302 Communists dead, while ARVN suffered 46 dead and 152 wounded...
...funded by contributions from the U.S. Soft-spoken and portly, she drives about Kontum in a red Honda sedan. Dr. Smith has survived many minor disasters and at least two major ones. In 1968, her hospital was badly shot up during the Communist Tet offensive; four years later, the ARVN 23rd Division set up a fire base in the hospital, looting and vandalizing the building in the process. She is undeterred by her problems: "I couldn't practice medicine in the States," she explains to visitors. "The standard of living is too high; people there are concerned with minor...