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...converted ATCS, called "Aid Boats" by Delta G.I.s, puff along at eight knots behind the Mobile Riverine's speedier patrol boats, whose missions are to inspect sampans for smuggled arms and materiel and attack suspected Viet Cong strongholds. The little flattops serve as refueling depots for support helicopters and as supply ships. But their most important duty is to serve as floating Medevac stations for the attack ships...
...prompted a report depicting North Korea as a nation devoted to peace and progress, while South Korea, which has "lived in the American style since 1953," was shown rife with corruption, unemployment and prostitution. On another news show, 'a commentator contemptuously suggested that to discourage bombing, the Viet Cong should put U.S. prisoners in factories and villages-because "Americans have a great deal of humanity for themselves...
Banking and diving on orders from radio-equipped spotters on the ground, six planes flew pass after deadly pass over the lush, green terrain. Were they flushing out Viet Cong? Hardly. The enemy, darting around some 7,000 seaside acres of Monterey County, south of San Francisco, was Microtus californicus, a grey, nocturnal field mouse that measures no more than 4 in. from tip to quivering tail, yet threatens most of the nation's artichoke crop...
Overlapping Program. If the Alliance is not identical with the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, it certainly comes close. The "Save the Country Manifesto" it issued after the Mimot meeting significantly overlaps with the N.L.F.'s long-announced 14 points in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops and bases and the creation of an independent, neutral South Viet Nam. Still, nine of its ten leaders have never been identified as Communists or as having had close association with the Viet Cong-although all have neutralist or leftist backgrounds. Chairman Trinh Dinh Thao...
...Vietnamese intelligence seems to share the U.S. State Department's assessment that the Alliance is "a creation of the N.L.F. and Hanoi." The Viet Cong, intelligence insists, have been thinking in terms of another front -aimed in particular at the cities-for some time. A document captured last year noted that "the more allies we find, even if they are temporary and precarious, the better." Communist or not, the Alliance could gain appeal in war-weary cities if the Communists launch another urban offensive or if President Nguyen Van Thieu's government shows signs of cracking. Obviously...