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...here thinking of the many objects I would like to thrust into the mouth of the protester on your cover [May 18], I say good for Mr. Nixon. In the short time since U.S. forces entered Cambodia, all of us here in Bien Hoa can see the good results. All of the supplies, i.e., weapons, ammo, rice, rockets, that have been found in "the City" and other places in Cambodia help us here Activity in our area has dropped. The V.C. gets his weapons at the store in Cambodia, and if the store is closed...
...love the fight," Tri says. Pursuing the fight on a typical day last week, Tri covered more than 250 miles by helicopter, ranging from his III Corps headquarters at Bien Hoa to the huge Cambodian rubber plantation at Chup. For Tri, the day ended at 6:30 p.m., when he returned to his spacious family villa at Bien Hoa, 15 miles from Saigon, to relax with his wife, his six children and his swimming pool. Next morning at 7:30, he boarded a waiting helicopter with all the aplomb of a commuter headed for another day at the office-except...
...Binh Thoi, not far from Saigon, was once a prosperous farm village with red-tiled roofs, gas lamps and fertile coconut and orange groves that stretched as far as the eye could see. U.S. troops and Viet Cong guerrillas left it a wasteland. Chu Thao, a teacher from nearby Bien Hoa, describes what happened: "Not a blade of grass survived. The surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks...
...Communist victory was not won at Chu Lai, Danang or Bien Hoa, or at any of those now not so strange sounding places. The victory was won exactly where Ho Chi Minh had known and said it would be won, in the hearts and minds of the American people: "The people of the United States do not have the determination to persevere in the struggle in Southeast Asia. When they grow tired of fighting, we will still be here...
Little Church. By far the most sustained ground fighting erupted in midweek within a few thousand feet of Bien Hoa, a huge and vital airbase northeast of Saigon. The Communists took up positions in a string of hamlets near the busy base and, in the bloody fighting that ensued, a battered little church changed hands several times. The battle did not turn until fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships, taking off little more than a mile away, saturated the Communist positions with rockets and napalm. A few Viet Cong staggered out of the inferno, bleeding and holding their weapons over their...