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...Americanism. Both Thieu and his flamboyant Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky last week swore they would "never" have anything to do with a coalition government that included the Viet Cong. Ky was particularly upset by U.S. criticism of the performance of the South's government and army. Speaking in Dalat, he lashed out at "those colonialists who think that by giving us a small quantity of material support that they can slander us. No one, be he named...
...will probably head the delegation. He would not be likely to make the negotiations any easier. Since the prospect of talks has loomed, Ky has become noticeably unhappy with the Americans. "Any foreigner who wants to withdraw from Viet Nam can withdraw today," he told university students in Dalat last week, obviously aiming...
...hardest hit towns in all Viet Nam: 45% destroyed, nearly 1,000 dead, and 10,000 homeless. Many sections of Saigon were heavily damaged and 120,000 people left homeless. Estimates of the damage to Hue ran as high as 80%. One out of five of Dalat's 82,000 people was without a roof over his head...
...Dalat, pleasure spot for South Vietnamese generals and site of the nation's fledgling military academy, the cadets got an early introduction to combat. The Viet Cong seized the highland town, still held it at week's end. On the Bong Son plain, where the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) has so often punished the enemy, the Communists hit an Air Cav base, destroyed two helicopters and penetrated the perimeter before being repulsed. At the Dong Ba Thien airfield just north of Cam Ranh Bay, attackers using satchel charges destroyed nine helicopters. In the Mekong Delta, long a Viet Cong haven...
...come a little closer to Dalat last week when a dam and power station outside of town were sabotaged by the VC. The resulting flood wiped out a quarter mile of the Phan Rang/Nha Trang road (the coastal road). Gasoline and rice used to be brought into Dalat by this road. Speculation is that both commodities will be rationed until the road is repaired--and that could take months. That's too bad--just getting used to 'com' (rice) and the lack of buoyancy of landrovers, Vespas, and jeeps on the pot-holed and dirt roads