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...reasonably clear head should have seen that the Buddhists were gravely hurting the war against the Reds, who pressed their attacks in the coastal provinces, having seized and held much of the Anlao Valley, despite the government's five-battalion drive to dislodge them. But for the moment, the most crucial war was still being fought between the government and the Buddhists. At week's end, the South Vietnamese army reasserted its political power, dissolved the High National Council, a kind of legislative assembly that has been partly under Buddhist influence. Rumors continued that the Buddhists would again...
More Aid. Often fighting against great odds, government troops gave an uncommonly plucky account of themselves. In the Camau Peninsula, they lured an elite, 700-man Viet Cong battalion into a trap, killed 115 Reds with a loss of only 27 government dead...
Elsewhere in the south the situation worsened considerably, and even the mountain resort area of Dalat, popular as a site for government crisis huddles, is now Communist-infested. Through out the country, not a day went by without a Communist attack of battalion size or larger. The Reds have scored their most alarming gains in the central provinces, as evidenced by last week's biggest clash: the battle of Anlao...
...Viet Nam last summer, Donlon was commanding a detachment assigned to defend Camp Nam Dong, 400 miles north of Saigon. At 2:25 a.m. on July 6, a Viet Cong battalion launched a full-scale surprise attack. In the course of the five-hour battle, DonIon seemed to be everywhere, firing and hurling hand grenades under a hail of enemy bullets and mortar shells. He shot down a three-man Viet Cong demolition team threatening the main gate of the defense compound. He dragged urgently needed ammunition across open areas to gun positions. When he discovered a wounded gun crew...
...Would Die. There was always the chance that the rebels were bluffing. But a battalion of 600 crack Belgian paratroopers was loaded aboard U.S. C-130 turboprop transports at Belgium's Diest airbase, flown to a little-used U.S. military base on Ascension Island, a British outpost in the South Atlantic only six air hours from Stanleyville. If necessary for humanitarian reasons, the Belgian government later announced, the paratroopers would be dropped on Stanleyville...