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...more or less formal poll was taken among the South Vietnamese to find out what, in their view, the U.S. has been up to. The answers, gathered by U.S.-trained poll takers in five areas from Qui Nhon on the central coast to Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, range from balanced to bizarre...
...success. The Communist position has its weaknesses. Hanoi's Laotian and Cambodian holdings are very sparsely populated. In South Viet Nam the Communists hold nothing but such desolate regions as portions of the U Minh Forest and the A Shau Valley. The heavily populated and strategically important Mekong Delta and the eleven provinces around Saigon face no substantial military danger. While ARVN troops have performed disappointingly in some recent battles in Cambodia and Laos, the litmus test of the Vietnamization program is how they will defend themselves inside South Viet...
...Delta is looking north. It recently agreed to merge with troubled Northeast Airlines and is awaiting word from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which industry insiders believe will grant approval. At first glance, the advantage to Delta of such a merger is not entirely obvious. Northeast is as weak as Delta is strong. The Boston-based airline has had only one moneymaking year in the past 15, and has been serving barely half the New England and Middle Atlantic cities for which it is certified. Citizens of some of those towns regard Northeast's presence as a mixed blessing...
Northeast also has a buried treasure of other routes that it never had the money to exploit fully. They stretch from Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington to Miami. The most important prize that the merger will bring, according to Delta Chairman Charles H. Dolson, is Northeast's right to fly the heavily traveled New York-Miami route. "Now," he says, "we can compete with Eastern...
Inheriting Problems. In addition to this bonanza, Delta will inherit some problems. It must assume a $40 million accrued debt from Northeast and continue to maintain the perennially profitless New England routes. "We can't do any better with the local service than Northeast did," Dolson admits. "Even a genius can't make money flying jets 100 miles at a time...