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...Sheep Meadow of Manhattan's Central Park, amid a sprinkling of Viet Cong flags, most of the crowd of 40,000 were subdued and conventionally dressed. The only trouble came when a phalanx of pro-war marchers showed up after a Loyalty Day parade farther downtown that included independence-minded Byelorussians, Third Avenue drunks and a Chinese-American chanting "Bomb Peiping...
...year-olds will be drafted first, and the army will accept volunteers of 16 and 17. Not only are men of those ages more militarily educable, but few have families, thus saving the government rice allowances and family bonuses normally paid to older, married soldiers. And, since the Viet Cong are recruiting at younger and younger ages, the government hopes to get to the boys before the enemy does. It also intends to induct some 45,000 students in Vietnamese colleges and universities who are failing to take regular, successful examinations. The 25,000 left in the colleges will...
...Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
...served as a refuge for pirates, fugitives and guerrillas throughout Vietnamese history. Crisscrossed with hidden canals and with vegetation so thick it has resisted all attempts at defoliation, the 1,550-sq. mi. U Minh is a tangled swampland crawling with snakes, boars, tigers-and virtually untouchable Viet Cong. It has been a prime enemy redoubt since 1946, and what the Viet Cong have built in it no one but they know: no non-Communist troops have ever dared venture in, and its masters even kept villagers living on the forest fringes from entering their lair...
...that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started a forest fire. At almost the same time fires accidentally started in other parts of the forest. Whipped by changing winds, the fires met, melded, and ate their way through the U Minh at one-third...