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Macabre Memories. Hitching a ride back to Saigon from a remote staging area, Faas found himself in the midst of a major operation by South Vietnamese troops against a Viet Cong stronghold in Binh Duong province. He noticed that the troops were unusually edgy and soon learned why. Helicopters were scheduled to lay down a cloud of "nausea gas" just before the attack and, while the gas was nonlethal, the South Vietnamese were leery...
Within the past month, hard-core Viet Cong battalions have captured 70 of the 82 government-defended hamlets in Hoai Nhon district. Hoai Nhon (pronounced why none) is the strategic key to control of Binh Dinh province. And if Binh Dinh, with its highways, harbors and airbases, falls, South Viet Nam is effectively decapitated...
...carefully detailed according to the instructions of Mao Tse-Tung's handbook on guerilla warfare. The Viet Cong have paid much closer attention to their handbook than their Viot Minh counterparts in the days of war against the French; in particular there have been no set piece battles except Binh Gia and peasant indoctrination has been much more sophisticated. In the contrast of a (brilliant) masterplan, the May 2nd Committee's statement becomes mere distortions...
...block potential escape routes. Rockets laced the 40-sq.-mi. area, smashing huts and sending greasy black smoke pluming skyward, while a 19-boat force stirred up the Saigon River in watchful patrol. This was "Operation Brushfire"-the long-awaited, widely discussed push against the Viet Cong of Binh Duong province, the men who had probably mortared
...whip-whip-whip of whirling rotors. In Quang Due province, the local American adviser, a Negro captain, jounces along a red-dust path in his familiar Jeep, packing a .45 on his hip and speaking Vietnamese with a Basin Street beat. In a sandbagged patrol base in Binh Duong province, a U.S. captain sprawls in a hammock, exhausted after a night's march, a carbine across his belly and a can of Schlitz in his hand. In cemeteries back home, many of his less-fortunate buddies rest underground...