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...preparation for what most analysts believed would be an assault on Saigon. Already there were clashes at the district town of Xuan Loc, just 40 miles east of the capital on strategic Route 1 and at Chon Thanh, 45 miles north of Saigon, which was captured by Viet Cong forces after a heavy siege...
Such reporting was blatantly tendentious, but even where this was not true, the Provisional Revolutionary Government and the NLF were still "the political arm of the Viet Cong" and "Communist-led forces," and the Republic of Vietnam, now little more than an enclave around Saigon, was still "South Vietnam." In United Press International's dispatches, North Vietnamese troops and the NLF "overran" province after province. And Time attributed many of Saigon's difficulties to Montagnard tribesmen "who, as despised fourth class citizens in South Vietnam, were ripe for exploitation by the Communists," and who now "infested" much of the country...
...Communists apparently had not anticipated the civilian stampede, and they certainly did not welcome it. It is, after all, an empty victory to capture the land and lose the people. Armed troops were also mixed with the refugees. Thus last week North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were deployed to try to block the exodus from the Central Highlands to the coast. On a stretch of road in Phu Bon province, a refugee column was harassed again and again by enemy fire, taking heavy casualties. At one point part of the column crossed the Song Ba River but soon...
...rainy season slows the fighting, the Communists are likely to be on the capital's doorstep when the dry season arrives; they already have seven divisions and at least 200 tanks in the area. Without some political solution - meaning a coalition with the Communists - Hanoi and the Viet Cong will press for the military victory that they have been seeking for ten years. Saigon can probably hold out for quite a while, at great cost to any attacker. Eventually, however, it is hard to imagine South Viet Nam decisively reversing the defeats suffered in the past three nightmarish weeks...
...size of airplane hangars that was once the property of the U.S. Corps of Engineers. There was no evidence of help from the government anywhere. Not a single Vietnamese official appeared, not a single bag of rice was delivered. Not even the police, who are usually concerned about Viet Cong infiltration into refugee caravans, bothered to show up. The National Assemblymen and local elected leaders, worried by stories that the North Vietnamese were killing civil servants in the towns they occupied, were busy saving themselves and their families. The mayor of Danang, an ARVN colonel, one night declared...