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...third bloody week, and was also beginning to look like old times -very old times. In the craggy, sandy wastes of South Viet Nam's northern provinces, where the Communist drive began, whole platoons of tanks dueled for the first time in this war. Farther south, in Binh Long province, where the main fighting flared, columns of troops and vehicles crawled along a sun-baked highway on their way to aid a garrison under siege by the Communist regiments and artillery of General Vo Nguyen Giap. "This battle is a very conventional one," said an American adviser, Colonel...
...crucial in staving off defeat. Last week that proposition was tested again as U.S. and Vietnamese aircraft fought to save an outgunned ARVN force from what would be Giap's first important victory of the campaign: the capture of An Loc (pop. 40,000), the capital of Binh Long province, which is 60 miles north of Saigon via the French-built Highway...
...been frustrated in their attempts to capture the old imperial capital of Hue or the city of Quang Tri farther north, and it is believed that An Loc was to have been the seat of a provisional Viet Cong government. It should not have been a difficult target. In Binh Long province, the chief ARVN force was the 10,000-man 5th Division, a weak outfit that had been badly bloodied by the North Vietnamese a year ago in Cambodia. Opposing it, were two battle-tested North Vietnamese divisions, and an artillery regiment (some...
What were the North Vietnamese really up to? There were few clues from the Communists; Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the chief Viet Cong negotiator in Paris, spoke conventionally of overthrowing "the repressive regime of Saigon" and establishing a goverment of "national concord" All that intelligence officers know for sure is that Hanoi has planned a five-phase offensive...
After playing to more than 12,000 G.I.s in Long Binh-his first show in Viet Nam-Sammy Davis Jr. spouted enthusiasm for the Now Army. "From my Army days in the '40s to now it's unbelievable-in terms of the black and white relationship, in terms of the Army's bending the rules which used to be so rigid, in terms of regarding men as individuals as much as they can. I saw certain things yesterday I wish I could see at home in terms of people, just peopleness. They have been out there...