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...assessed only by the requests and equivocations that for now are sealed in Pentagon filing cabinets. Strategy aside, however, his clearest single failure was not to have built the South Vietnamese army into a respectable fighting force. His deputy and possible successor, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, 53, has made ARVN his principal concern for the past year...
...being driven out, leaving 275 of their dead behind. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion of the enemy and killed 164. The Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack...
...countryside, the Communists are busily reaping the harvest so painfully wrested from them over the past two years in allied operations: propagandizing the peasants, collecting rice and taxes and, above all, recruiting fresh soldiers for their depleted ranks-even impressing into their ranks some ARVN soldiers caught home on Tet leaves. About half of the South Vietnamese army was on leave when the Communists first struck nearly four weeks ago, and many ARVN soldiers have not yet returned to their units. The government's hope is that many of the missing offered their services to the nearest headquarters when...
Efforts to hold back the narrowing Communist noose produced some of the fiercest fighting of the week. Seven miles west of the capital, U.S. 25th Infantrymen killed 128 Communists in a firefight, and less than a mile from the Chinese quarter of Cholon, ARVN Rangers killed 48 Viet Cong. Tan Son Nhut airport remained a major target for shelling, and there was fear that General William Westmoreland may not have sufficient troops to defend his own MACV headquarters there against a concerted enemy thrust. Aside from their military aims, the Communists may also be attempting to cut off Saigon...
Against this strong opposition, the allies waged a relentless two-prong attack-U.S. Marines southbound on the east, ARVN Marines headed the same way on the west. Clearing the way through the city's debris-covered avenues came U.S. tanks, their turret guns swiveling from side to side as if to sniff the air, then belching fire at the Citadel walls. Overhead, helicopters sprayed napalm across the ponds and courtyards of the Imperial Palace, and fighter-bombers blasted away at three main enemy positions. From below, out to sea, a U.S. cruiser kept shelling the Communists...