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Paramilitary operations are being scaled down. In South Viet Nam, the CIA's role in the "Phoenix"-or counterterror-program has already been phased out. The program used CIA agents to advise the South Vietnamese in the "neutralization," or killing, of Viet Cong officials. Such covert activities are under the CIA'S deputy director of operations, currently William Colby, 53, a former ambassador who was in charge of pacification in Viet Nam from...
...pursue a policy of elimination. So far he has shown far more political strength than anyone had thought he would immediately after the ceasefire. He has made only a pretense of moving toward joint political arrangements with the Communists, feeling no pressure to do so. He keeps the Viet Cong delegation isolated in their spartan compound at Tan Son Nhut, located in Saigon. He orders as many as 80 air strikes a day in Tay Ninh and Binh Long provinces north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, where the Communists are believed to have heavy equipment. Throughout South Viet...
Russo, 36, testified first. A balding, horn-rimmed aeronautics engineer, he explained that, when he was first in Viet Nam as a Rand Corp. researcher, he had believed Viet Cong cadre to be "in doctrinated fanatics." But his gradual conversion to an antiwar activist was brought about in part by an interview with one memorable Viet Cong prisoner. Russo told how the prisoner vowed that "he would never give up, no matter how badly they tortured him. It was here I learned the difference between in doctrination and commitment. He was committed." Russo told the jury: "It was very moving...
Flexibility. Throughout the Communist offensive, the fighting spirit of the national army, FANK (for Forces Armees Nationales Kampochea), has steadily declined. On the other hand, the effectiveness of the 80,000-man Communist fighting force, composed of North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge and other local groups, has sharply improved. The U.S. expected that the bombing that it resumed on Feb. 9 would force the Communists to interrupt their offensive by mid-March in order to regroup. Instead they showed greater tactical flexibility than ever, cutting off the supply routes almost at will...
...scoop on the My Lai massacre photos. That caused ill will and became part of the continuing friction that defined itself in terms of both age and politics. Junior reporters began calling two older executives "Mad Dog" and "Snake," and were in turn referred to as "the Cong" and "the Revolutionaries." For a while management fretted over a rumor that reporters were planning to put LSD in the cafeteria water fountain...