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...Viet Nam, Communist troops have been regularly beaten back, hurled from prepared positions, put to flight and slaughtered in huge numbers. Their setbacks have been so costly, U.S. experts reckoned, that they would need time to recover from their huge losses of both weaponry and men. Yet the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies have just kept coming on, and their persistence and unpredictability have created some of the war's most bitter fighting. Instead of withdrawing and licking their wounds, the Communists last week launched another series of attacks. At the same time, the official North Vietnamese...
...Waves. The target of the week's first attack was no surprise. It was Bo Due, a remote district-headquarters compound within easy commuting distance of the Communists' Cambodian sanctuary. What surprised U.S. officers was the identity of the attacking force. It was the main-force Viet Cong 272nd Regiment, which took such a severe mauling at Loc Ninh last month that Major General John H. Hay, commander of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, predicted that it would be three to six months before the 9th V.C. Division, of which the 272nd is a part, would be able...
During one amphibious operation off Nam Quan, Arnheiter-whose orders were to stay well at sea and cut off any Viet Cong "ex-filtration" by boat-commanded his officers to file false position reports and then took the Vance in close some 20 times to bombard the shore. On another occasion, Arnheiter brought the Vance within 250 yds. of the beach to blast a Buddhist pagoda that he suspected of being a Communist automatic-weapons position-and, according to the junior officers, avoided grounding only because Exec Hardy "relieved the skipper at the conn" and wheeled the ship to safety...
...which at least five are classified by U.S. intelligence as major bases (see map). The network, which stretches from the marshlands of the Mekong Delta into the bloodied hills of the Central Highlands, is believed to support six regiments of North Vietnamese regulars as well as innumerable Viet Cong guerrillas-a total of up to 20,000 men who are kept busy raiding and reconnoitering along the border. A key base is tucked away in Cambodia's "Parrot's Beak," just 40 miles west of Saigon, which also harbors one of the several jungle hospitals established...
...what my brothers say in their letters is not the same." Others, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, bemoan TV's "one-sided" war coverage in which the camera focuses almost exclusively on U.S. troops. American viewers, of course, never see the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong in battle, let alone committing brutalities. Indeed, when the Communists do release films to Western TV, they invariably show little more than heroic civilians during an air raid or triumphant Hanoians watching a U.S. plane going down...