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...After that, they expect the U.S. to offer a $1 billion rebuilding program to the North while Hanoi agrees in turn to quit using the Demilitarized Zone as a staging area and to halt infiltration. Then will come the thorniest issue of all-the future role of the Viet Cong in the South...
...just that. Shelling, mortaring and rocketing 122 targets throughout South Viet Nam, including 40 cities and towns, seven airbases and dozens of other allied installations, they staged the long-expected reprise of their countrywide Tet offensive. Round 2 did not come near the original. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong did not overrun a single allied town or installation, launched ground attacks only in Saigon. One captured Viet Cong document outlined their limited goals: "Our immediate requirement is to carry out harassment fire, and the current requirement is to create pressure over peace talks between our representatives and American representatives...
Headstone-to-Headstone. But in the parts of Saigon where the mixed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units made a strong effort, there was fierce and bloody fighting. One enemy battalion took positions near the entrance to Tan Son Nhut, where a French military cemetery stands. It took South Vietnamese paratroops two days of headstone-to-headstone and house-to-house battling to drive the Communists out. All week long, battles raged around Saigon's Y Bridge, where snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers...
Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
When a Viet Cong squad entrenched itself around the Phan Thanh Gian Bridge, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan grew impatient at South Vietnamese navy and marine troops trying to knock them out, came to the bridge to take personal command of the assault. It nearly cost him his life. After firing several bursts from his AR-15 at the enemy, he himself was hit in the thigh and leg. An American MP floated Loan down the river under the protection of the floor boards of the docks and stilt-houses until he could be safely evacuated. Loan...