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...dangles the village perilously close to Cambodian supply routes favored by the Viet Cong, and the blades of arriving American helicopters threaten to snip Buon Yun from its mooring. A detachment of twelve U.S. soldiers settles in to protect the village from...
...rebel forces are supported by nearly 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advisers and they possess an impressive arsenal. While Hanoi provides most of this equipment, some diplomats in Phnom-Penh suspect that the Insurgents have still another source of supply -government officials and military officers who make a quick profit by selling the guerrillas American ammunition...
...anniversary is planned. Instead, fighting will probably continue as it has every day since the signing of the cease-fire agreement. During the past year, nearly 13,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and 2,150 civilians have been killed. According to Saigon, 44,850 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers also have died. The Vietnamese fatalities since the cease-fire exceed the total number of Americans killed in the course of the war (45,941). "What we have here," observed one of South Viet Nam's top military officers, "is simply a lesser degree of war. We're tired...
...cease-fire agreement also called for the creation of a National Council of Reconciliation and Concord (composed of representatives of the Saigon government, the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, and "neutrals") that would be the forerunner of a coalition government in Saigon. But attempts at reconciliation quickly degenerated into hopeless name-calling, and the council was never formed...
...three productive years in his fighting prime for embracing unpopular political beliefs, Ali, since re-emerging into the harsh glare of center ring, is no longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped, not only of his livelihood and title, but of his incomparable skills as well...