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...favorite conservative myth about the Vietnam war is that the U.S. could have won, had it only possessed the political will to wage a total war against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army. As Reagan put it in 1965, "We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home for Christmas...
...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...fiction writers would have dared to imagine such a debacle. Outside the convention hall: the massed outrage of the counterculture -- antiwar activists, Viet Cong supporters, Yippies (who brought along their own presidential candidate, a porker named Pigasus). Within: the political machine that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey as its nominee. Between the two sides: heavily armed National Guardsmen and the burly, blue- shirted Chicago police, the armed forces of Mayor Richard C. Daley, whose clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic...
Then came the nightmare of Tet. At dawn Viet Nam time on Jan. 30, 1968, fireworks sputtered in celebration of the lunar new year. Amid the cacophony, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second-largest city, and seven other major towns, breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What...
...American people . . . the embargo. The second . . . pursued in secret, ((is)) the lack of enforcement." While Customs has turned a blind eye, Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. have shipped up to $200 million a year in currency and goods to their homeland. "People assumed that it was O.K.," says Mai Cong, president of the Vietnamese Community Center of Orange County. Now the signal from Customs seems to be that toleration has its limits...