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...enemy proved elusive in the first days of the sweep, but then a U.S. armored cavalry regiment flushed a Viet Cong battalion 15 miles northwest of Saigon. In a nine-hour battle, 81 of the enemy were killed without a single U.S. loss. By week's end, some 500 Communists had been killed in about 60 scattered clashes. Even so, U.S. intelligence suspected that most Communist units had either withdrawn toward Cambodia or broken up their units into small bands to escape detection and avoid contact...
...admits that the judges--including Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Vladmir Dedijer--were already convinced that the U.S. had committed war crimes in Vietnam. "We're all conditioned...the question is how the evidence is dealt with," he says flatly. The tribunal felt that the Viet Cong had not committed war crimes. "Their resistance is a heroic chapter...
Pike also called for a reconvening of the Nuremberg trials to punish U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Claiming that he wasn't a pacifist, he did not condemn Viet Cong terrorism. "Freedom fighters have to be rough," he said...
...brings to a story his particular predispositions, but Michèle Ray, 29, a comely French journaliste, is something special. Michele views the world as a vast fairy tale. There are the cruel oppressors, who are mainly Americans. And there are the cruelly oppressed, who range from the Viet Cong to Castro's Cubans to Bolivian peasants. Michèle's own role is that of the fairy princess who has come to break the spell and liberate them. As she often says, "I think with my heart...
From this romantic point of view, Michèle covered the Viet Nam war for nine months, and indeed her life seemed charmed. Deciding to motor the whole length of South Viet Nam, she made 400 miles before the Viet Cong captured her. They treated her considerately, even sharing their tunnel with her during a U.S. air strike. Later, she wrote a vivid article for LIFE Interna tional, in which she stressed her captors' gentleness and perseverance. She contributed battle footage to an anti-U.S. film, Far from Vietnam; a book of hers about...