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...riots or a possible coup attempt, new army orders forbid civilians to congregate in groups on the streets or off-duty soldiers to carry their weapons in the capital. Many Saigonese fear rape and rampage by their own troops as much as they dread an invasion by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. There have already been reports from the outskirts of marauding soldiers demanding money and bullying residents...
...social worker from an overrun province; "but rightly or wrongly, there is that fear of what Communists will do to them. Communism is still a physical threat." Twenty-one years of government propaganda no doubt helped instill that fear; but so did 21 years of exposure to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese tactics...
...happen?" a stunned South Vietnamese official wondered last week. "I just don't see how it could happen." His bafflement was shared by much of the world after the swift collapse of Saigon's fighting forces with almost no resistance in the face of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. With rare exceptions, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) did not even stand its ground and fight, dissolving instead into panic and flight in a historic military debacle...
...their respective control (which would have recognized each other's de jure rights in those areas); they never set up the National Council of Reconciliation and Concord, which was supposed to have organized national elections; they never designated points where their forces could receive replacements of supplies. When Viet Cong troops showed up at assembly points for resettlement in Communist-held areas, government forces often ambushed them. As for Hanoi, it seemed to view the whole agreement as simply another means of fulfilling Ho Chi Minh's maxim: "Fight until the Americans are gone, and then fight again until...
...fears that cease-fire or no, they were still determined to rule the South. Hanoi moved huge numbers of new troops into the South until overall Communist strength had grown by a startling 40%, to 220,000 combat troops at the start of the present offensive (the Viet Cong comprise only a small part of the Communist forces). The Communists turned muddy jungle supply trails into paved all-weather highways, and began sending their units hundreds of new weapons...