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...hour drive from the capital. The Communists have so far been frustrated in their attempts to capture the old imperial capital of Hue or the city of Quang Tri farther north, and it is believed that An Loc was to have been the seat of a provisional Viet Cong government. It should not have been a difficult target. In Binh Long province, the chief ARVN force was the 10,000-man 5th Division, a weak outfit that had been badly bloodied by the North Vietnamese a year ago in Cambodia. Opposing it, were two battle-tested North Vietnamese divisions...
...adventure in South Viet Nam. Some 35,000 North Vietnamese troops were present in the provinces south of the DMZ in Military Region I; there were perhaps 25,000 in the Central Highlands, 16,000 in the hard-pressed provinces around Saigon, 6,000 in the Delta. Counting Viet Cong soldiers, the total Communist troop strength in South Viet Nam is well over 100,000 men-the highest total since the months before the convulsive Tet 1968 attacks. Against them stand 492,000 South Vietnamese regulars and about 513,000 militia troops. The U.S. forces remaining in South Viet...
What were the North Vietnamese really up to? There were few clues from the Communists; Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the chief Viet Cong negotiator in Paris, spoke conventionally of overthrowing "the repressive regime of Saigon" and establishing a goverment of "national concord" All that intelligence officers know for sure is that Hanoi has planned a five-phase offensive...
...bothers many of the sailors that they are fighting a passive, unseen enemy. "We've been shooting at the same place for seven years," says one radarman. "By now, the Viet Cong must have the area roped off and posted with signs that say, 'Keep out, the ship is firing.' " Still, unlike the ground units in South Viet Nam, the Navy is not setting an immediate course for home. "When they talk about the U.S. withdrawing from Viet Nam," says a chief petty officer, "they don't count the Navy, because...
...doubt he did enrage manifesto writers and other sincere activists. In his passion to clarify, he could see both sides of almost every question. If he were alive today, according to Jones, he would be reminding antiwar demonstrators about Viet Cong atrocities...