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THESE DAYS OF TET HAPPINESS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF YOUR GOVERNMENT'S SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD read a banner strung across Saigon's Cong Ly Boulevard last week. All over the city, red flags-intended to summon good luck, not Communism -fluttered from balconies. Saigon's citizens celebrated with dragon parades, or gathered at pagodas to pray for financial success, domestic tranquillity and a peaceful new year. In the Chinese section of Cholon, which was badly bloodied during the Communist Tet attacks four years ago, the banners bravely promised that WHAT
...rare bright spot in the Indochina war has been the seemingly charmed survival of Angkor Wat, the fabulous, vine-covered imperial ruins that are revered today as the centerpiece of ancient Cambodian culture. Even after a Viet Cong regiment and several Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communist) battalions slipped into the undefended city 20 months ago, Angkor Wat seemed protected by a United Nations convention preserving national monuments from wartime damage. A French-sponsored team that had been meticulously restoring the city's 800-year-old bas-relief galleries, statues and fluted balustrades was permitted by the Communists to continue...
...supply of food. Captured enemy documents told of a "nationwide spring campaign" to be launched early this week, and one defector volunteered the campaign's slogan: "One day's effort will make up for 20 years of fighting." A contradictory document ordered Viet Cong cadres "not to start anything until June or July...
...self-assured U.S. pacification chief of Military Region II, last week flatly predicted a step-up in Communist guerrilla activity followed by a major push-though no attempt at the countrywide "general uprising" that the Communists tried in 1968. His reasoning: at that time, 75% of the Viet Cong infrastructure was located inside population centers. Now the figure, according to Vann, is only...
...respect-a national furor over the desecration of the ruins. Last month the Communists abruptly expelled Bernard Groslier, the imperious, Cambodian-born Frenchman who had tried to carry on his restoration work under the occupation, and jailed some 40 local villagers who had been helping him. According to Viet Cong defectors-some of whom brought out snapshots of themselves taken in the temple area-several stray Communist and government mortar rounds had also fallen on historical buildings. A former V.C. captain, Tran Van Ky, has conceded that "we were given orders not to touch the statues and temples, but that...