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...Chieu Hoi (open arms) program was begun in 1963, the number of defectors to the Saigon government has risen from 11,248 that year to 43,599 so far this year. Much of the big jump in 1969 comes from a sharp increase in the Mekong Delta, where ARVN troops have made new, deeper sweeps. The countrywide total for October was 5,615, the largest ever in a single month...
Elsewhere, the fighting was pretty much "Vietnamized." In northern Quang Nam province, South Vietnamese regional force troops captured 58 of the enemy and killed another 130, including a battalion commander and a Communist district chief. Meanwhile, in the Mekong Delta, ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops and Marines struck back at North Vietnamese forces that had bested them in previous skirmishes...
...major test of ARVN stamina may take place in the Central Highlands, where some 7,000 North Vietnamese regulars have been pressing the ARVN's 23rd Division. In one engagement near Bu Prang, 110 miles north of Saigon, North Vietnamese troops charged an ARVN battalion, creating such confusion that two South Vietnamese A-37 jets, called in to provide air support, accidentally bombed ARVN troops...
...Saigon, American commanders were less optimistic. Their view was that all combat troops could be home by mid-1971, but they doubted that U.S. airpower and artillery support could be withdrawn for a long time thereafter. U.S. military men also pointed out that the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) has not yet proved itself in heavy combat. Last week, when North Vietnamese regulars inflicted heavy losses on ARVN units in a battle near Due Lap, a fortified strongpoint 131 miles northeast of Saigon, U.S. authorities hustled American correspondents, including TIME's Burton Pines, away from the scene. Conceded one American...
...brass have their day, too, with Curtis Le May announcing, "The world is watching us in Viet Nam to see if we put our money where our mouth is," and Colonel George S. Patton III, with an aw-shucks grin, beaming into the camera and describing ARVN enthusiastically as a "bloody good bunch of killers...