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...Gang. When a team fresh from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing...
...filled with South Viet Nam's Buddhist-fueled political crisis, the Allies, running an average of 15 battalion-size-or-larger operations each week, have been methodically hunting down the enemy. From north of Hue to south of Saigon, from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands to Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, spearheaded by the armor and artillery and airpower of the U.S., the Allies have been hitting the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese reinforcements where they live (see map), seizing enemy stockpiles of rice and salt and weapons. Even in the enemy redoubts where...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Other War in Viet Nam" will focus on Binh Dinh province, detailing the scope of the joint U.S. and South Vietnamese rural construction and development activities currently under way in key areas of South Viet...
...troops, aircraft carriers, huge bombers, poison gases and napalm." He promised continued aid to North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong, and was rewarded-doubtless to Peking's chagrin-with warm speeches from Hanoi Party Secretary Le Duan and the Viet Cong's female representative, Nguyen Thi Binh, who praised the Russians as "the true combat friends of the people of South Viet...
...Refugees. While the 2nd was digging out a home at Cu Chi, the U.S. Marines were abandoning An Lao Valley, the object of Operation Double Eagle, which began three weeks ago as part of a massive allied offensive in Binh Dinh province. The marines accounted for 312 enemy dead, but Double Eagle got its claws into little really organized opposition. Unfortunately, the enemy will likely soon slip back into fertile An Lao: Saigon does not have enough South Vietnamese troops to follow the marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers...