Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is, of .course, the lingering suspicion and secret hope that Ho's regime simply does not know how poorly it is doing. Lacking the ability of their U.S. counterparts to tour the battlefield regularly by helicopter, North Vietnamese commanders are at the mercy of reports from the field. How fanciful those reports can be was illustrated by the captured enemy summary on the battle of Loc Ninh. Instead of admitting disaster, the Communist commander reported that his forces destroyed "a U.S. armored battalion, a U.S. rifle battalion, a U.S. artillery battalion and one puppet (South Vietnamese) regiment...
Though American forces, when available from the battlefield, will continue to attempt to dig out the Viet Cong infrastructure in the hamlets and pacify the population, this also is seen as primarily a Vietnamese chore. The ultimate goal of the war is for the allegiance of the people of South Viet Nam, says a Pentagon general, "and as long as the guns boom in the distance, the war is still on for the people. I would like to get rid of the boom, boom." In its place, he wants to hear the tweet, tweet of a train engine. "That...
...captured recently by U.S. troops. In it, the guerrilla conceded that the V.C. could not deal , the U.S. and its allies "a lethal blow" and were thinking of turning toward a coalition government as a means of achieving what they could no longer hope to win on the battlefield. The Communists of late have been savagely mauled in battles from Dak To to the Delta...
...Battlefield Privacy. Some viewers complain of a credibility gap. Explains Mrs. Valetta Wheeler of Detroit, who has two brothers in Viet Nam: "What they say on TV and what my brothers say in their letters is not the same." Others, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, bemoan TV's "one-sided" war coverage in which the camera focuses almost exclusively on U.S. troops. American viewers, of course, never see the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong in battle, let alone committing brutalities. Indeed, when the Communists do release films to Western TV, they invariably show little more than heroic civilians...
...State Department, officials commend TV for its taste in "the invasion of battlefield privacy," but deplore the penchant of correspondents for overplaying each skirmish as some kind of turning point. Only recently, in a rare turnabout, CBS characterized the battle of Loc Ninh as simply the recapturing of a town that was overrun by the enemy, while ABC more correctly described it as one of "the greatest American victories...