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...total of South Vietnamese living under Viet Cong control is down from around 4,000,000 in mid-1965 to 2,500,000 today. About 68% of the South Vietnamese population live in reasonably secure areas, while 15% remain in contested sections. Another 17% are under Viet Cong control. The government has gained 12% of the country's population in the past year...
...Viet Cong recruitment, running last year at the rate of some 7,500 per month, has now dropped...
...profile of war and pacification was sketched for the President from meticulously gathered statistics, Communist reports, prisoner interrogations, and U.S. and South Vietnamese intelligence sources. In almost all the country's provinces, the reports suggest, the Viet Cong is suffering increasingly from lack of food, recruiting difficulties, and the steady movement of the people from V.C.-held areas to the security of government-controlled territory. Ironically, in a war in which the enemy has always banked heavily on outlasting the more impatient Occidentals, many Viet Cong troops are sick and tired of the fighting...
...Donald Duncan (Random House, $1.95), has emotional authenticity. Duncan has killed. A professional soldier, he served 18 months in Viet Nam with the Green Berets and then quit to join the antiwar chorus. His account of deadly jungle hide-and-seek by Special Forces "Sneaky Petes" in the Viet Cong's midst throbs with veracity. But it was not the killing that made Duncan change his mind about war, or scenes of murder and torture, or simply the mind-numbing training that preceded his Viet Nam hitch. The crisis came instead deep in Viet Cong territory when...
...graduate student, unreels an unemotional chronicle of how Americans evicted Ben Sue's 3,500 peasants at gunpoint last January and demolished their homes in an effort to clear the area of guerrillas. He flew in with the G.I.s to Ben Sue, on the edge of the Viet Cong's Iron Triangle stronghold 30 miles northwest of Saigon; then he followed the uprooted villagers to a bleak camp behind barbed wire. He paints a picture of unremitting misery inspired by wanton cruelty-but he elects to omit details that would have colored it differently. For example...