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Almost universally, ARVN's officers believe that a major offensive is coming next year and that it will be fought mainly by North Vietnamese troops, who, according to Nghi, make up the bulk of enemy forces in South Viet Nam. The Viet Cong, Nghi claims, have all been "killed or have deserted. I believe that there will be an offensive early next year," he says. "Hue is a military target and a political target. Saigon is a political target. Their goal of a 'third Viet Nam' [a separate Communist state in the South] is very real." Although...
Explosions shattered the cool early-morning calm at South Viet Nam's Bien Hoa airbase one day last week. For 20 minutes, 35 Viet Cong 122-mm. rockets blasted the sprawling base, destroying four F-5 jet fighter-bombers, heavily damaging a workshop and cafeteria, and killing one airman and one child...
...dozens of South Vietnamese air force warplanes taking off from Bien Hoa. Loaded with 500-and 750-lb. bombs, the planes headed northward on a mission to avenge the previous day's attack. Their primary target: the city of Loc Ninh, the "administrative center" of the Viet Cong, 62 miles away. Saigon insisted that its bombs hit only military targets. The Viet Cong claimed that bombs fell on Loc Ninh's marketplace and infirmary, killing 42 civilians...
...daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province, deep in the Mekong River Delta, the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) has systematically nibbled away at Viet Cong positions...
...veteran now totally committed to working his way up the executive ladder at a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Another black, Vantee Thompson, came home from search-and-destroy missions to find himself on riot-control duty in Baltimore, his own people becoming as hard to understand as the Viet Cong...