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...South Vietnamese government outpost near the Cambodian border, Tong Le Chan, some 400 ARVN troops were surrounded by an entire Communist regiment, and large-scale fighting there seemed to be imminent. Some intelligence experts predict a general surge of Communist military activity later this month...
Unfortunately, there is nothing very extraordinary about an ARVN officer talking about air strikes within earshot of the men who are supposed to be overseeing the peace in Viet Nam. They are fully aware that the war continues...
...came from the ARVN artillery base and landed in Communist-controlled territory. The team's report, filed to the ICCS regional office in Can Tho, said that the round was a clear violation. It was a minor triumph for the team-but, of course, it did not stop the ARVN troops from firing at will into the hills...
...Paris agreement has not ended the fighting, it has also not led to the political upheavals that many observers in both Washington and Saigon feared might soon overwhelm Thieu. Saigon's 1,100,000-man military machine, the basis of Thieu's strength, has not collapsed; indeed, ARVN desertions have declined since the ceasefire. Thieu is also cheered by the unexpected ease with which his forces have retaken almost all of the 400 villages that were seized by the Communists in the confusion following the Jan. 23 initialing of the peace agreement...
...still were some 180 clashes a day-well above the level of many of the quieter periods of the war. For the entire cease-fire period so far, Saigon claimed 5,218 enemy dead and admitted that 870 of its own troops had been killed. In this fighting, the ARVN managed to clear all but one of the major roads around Saigon and claimed that it controlled virtually all the 220 hamlets that the Communists had tried to seize after the ceasefire...