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...small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than an assembly of separatist, often fiercely competitive sects and peoples, such as the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai, the Montagnards and, of course, the Catholics and Buddhists. Granting such subsocieties home rule would strengthen local government and security and also give them a larger stake in supporting a central government tolerant of their autonomy...
...dictatorship." As speakers who orated during the five-hour march made clear, Brazilians are deeply dissatisfied with progress under Costa, who promised to humanize the government when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that, charged the sober dai ly Jornal do Brasil, Costa's administration "has surpassed all the limits of unpopularity known by its predecessor," which was headed by the stern Humberto Castello Branco...
...South Viet Nam's major political factions were missing: both branches of the ultranationalist, right-wing Dai Viet Party, which garnered more than 7% of the vote in last September's presidential elections. Geographical (Southerners v. Northerners) and religious (Buddhists v. Catholics) representation was better balanced than in the Cabinet of his predecessor, Nguyen Van Loc. But Huong, like Loc, assembled a group of technicians rather than politicians, who could have broadened the base of popular support for the government. In fact, he retained six of the old ministers in the 18-man lineup...
...Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village of Dai...
Bamboo Breathing. After two days of fighting, the Marines took the village, only to be driven back by a vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But it was the 320th's last lunge. Under artillery and air strikes, it was forced to retreat northward, leaving 856 of its dead behind, as U.S. jets pursued and pounded its remnants. The Marines lost 68 dead, had 323 wounded seriously enough to require evacuation...