Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not foreshadow unilateral American with drawal from the war. Other requests: a U.S. guarantee of South Viet Nam's territorial integrity, a commitment to uphold his constitutionally elected regime, and a promise that no attempt will be made to arrange a cease-fire by bringing the Viet Cong into a coalition government. Johnson is apparently primed to assuage Thieu's fears, emphasizing that nothing has been held back from Saigon and that no amount of coffee-break talk has persuaded Hanoi's men to cease stonewalling. The U.S. is pledged to demand a seat for Saigon...
...have been sent overseas; it would be hard to find more gung-ho outfits anywhere than four Air Guard squadrons mobilized straight into combat in Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen of the 120th TFS have racked up more than 1,000 missions since reaching Viet Nam early in May. "What we got was real pros," says...
DESPITE the intensity of the military struggle, the Communists in South Viet Nam have never ceased their drive to indoctrinate the populace. In Communist-controlled areas, a political lecture is an intrinsic part of everyday life. For the youngsters in Viet Cong-run schools, the effort to instill the "spirit of struggle" begins right in the first grade. Ten-year-olds learn from their chemistry textbooks how to mix and use explosives, and in physics they are taught how to build a bunker so as to make it safe against various kinds of allied shelling and bombing. If they...
Major Buildup. The invisible ring the Communists have drawn around Saigon includes, according to intelligence estimates, 50 to 52 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong battalions. The Communists have divided the area into six military subdivisions-one comprising Saigon and Cholon, the other five wedges pointing at the heart of the city-and parceled out their troops among them. Not all of the Communist units are at full strength, but each of the five wedges harbors an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, four autonomous main-force battalions and guerrillas. Already inside the capital, say intelligence sources, is the so-called A2/C...
...Viet Nam is being thwarted by the Army's blind reliance on hardware and explosives. Corson's chosen weapons are the type of security his tiny teams afforded, coupled with social justice and an attempt to free the peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national liberation become viable, exportable commodities," says Corson, who views the escalation from about 650 U.S. advisers in 1959 to today's 534,000 troops as a gambler's compulsive urge to multiply his stake on a losing...