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Postponed Visits. But Chaffard felt emphatically that the Viet Cong had lots of staying power. "Old Uncle Ho and his comrades would go back to the maquis," wrote Chaffard, rather than suffer a military defeat at American hands. By the same token, their Viet Cong guerrillas in the South are perfectly willing to lie low for a while until U.S. patience wears thin and they can again set out to topple the Saigon government. Meanwhile, there was still the chance that Viet Cong regiments -backed by North Vietnamese army units-might mount a concerted attack on the airbase at Danang...
Maybe so. In the French newsmagazine L'Express, a leftist reporter freshly returned from a month-long sojourn among the Communist Viet Cong, implied as much. Asian Specialist Georges Chaffard said that the Viet Cong are demoralized by continued U.S. bombings in the South, that their supplies from North Viet Nam have been rudely interrupted by American air strikes (as well as by malaria and dysentery along the Ho Chi Minh trail), that they are losing support among the people, and that the Communists are now regrouping in the mountain plateaus above Saigon as if for a last stand...