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WILSON S. ADAMS Public Health Division USAID Danang, Viet...
First, he talked to American troops-Marines at Danang, flyers back from the air war up North, sailors on river assault boats-urging them not to be dismayed by the dissent at home. Second, he talked through newsmen to the American public, pointing up the progress in the war and calling for patience. Third, he talked to South Viet Nam's newly installed leaders, demanding a more vigorous effort in both prosecuting the war and broadening the base of Saigon's government...
...against the most important of the two MIG bases that had not yet been bombed. Navy and Air Force jets rolled in five times to smash the base at Phuc Yen, northwest of Hanoi, turning the sky into a tapestry of fireballs. Later, Marine planes from Danang ventured farther north than they normally do to make an unusual night raid on Phuc Yen. The Communists filled in many of the bomb craters overnight, but U.S. planes were back the next day to chew out more. In two days, the attackers hit twelve of the until now untouchable MIGs, and wrecked...
...ground action was relatively light. Though the Allies sent a total of 56 battalion-size sweeps searching for enemy throughout South Viet Nam, the only other place where the Communists fought rather than ran was in the northern I Corps area. Near Quang Tri City, 80 miles north of Danang, U.S. Marines fought a series of sharp skirmishes with North Vietnamese regulars; in the same vicinity a South Vietnamese battalion flushed a battalion of Communists and killed 195 of them in a 20-hour battle...
...saffron-and-grey-robed monks and nuns, their little paper fans fluttering like butterflies in the noonday sun, trekked to the Presidential Palace. It was Tri Quang's first head-on attack on the South Vietnamese government since Premier Nguyen Cao Ky put down the Buddhist insurrection in Danang and Hué in the spring of 1966. Tri Quang lost that round, and this time his chances seemed even slimmer. Then he was campaigning against the generals and demanding an elected government; now he was confronted by an elected government...