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...phase in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla rule-book arrested, but the V.C. found themselves being rooted out of havens they had long considered invulnerable. Twice in the last month-first near Ben Cat in the "Iron Triangle" north of Saigon, then last week in Operation Concord in Binh Dinh province-rhas-ciwc allied sweeps penetrated preserves lethally off limits to anyone but Communists for 15 years...
...keep them off balance, erode their influence. For the present, the U.S. is less interested in expanding its geography than in wearing down the enemy. The priority targets, as the U.S. sees them now: first, the U.S. Marines' Hué-Danang-Chu Lai area, then as much of Binh Dinh province as can be cleared, finally the Hop Tac region around Saigon...
...heaviest exodus has come from the central highlands, where most of the year's major battles have been fought. More than 100,000 homeless peasants and villagers have flooded Binh Dinh province alone, transforming Qui Nhon, the provincial capital, into the refugee capital of the country. There are now 95 reception centers and camps in Binh Dinh, but only ten trained Vietnamese social service workers to run them. In Danang, when the camps filled to capacity, the authorities had to put up roadblocks to prevent thousands more from streaming...
...When I was in Viet Nam, my interpreter's father was tortured by the Viet Cong and then buried alive-upside down with his legs remaining above ground. I visited in Binh Dinh province with a good Vietnamese friend in September 1963. A week after I was there, the Viet Cong came looking for the village chief, and not finding him at home, they killed two of his young children...
...with their hard-hitting 5-in. guns. In half a dozen operations, naval artillery socked more than 370 rounds onto targets as deep as four miles inland. The big rifles proved effective: sharpshooting by the U.S.S. Somers broke the back of a Communist assault on a district headquarters in Binh Thuan province, killing twelve and wounding...