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...interviewed several American prisoners of war, she presented a 20-minute film of the visit at a New York press conference that purported to show several recent bomb craters in dikes near Nam Sach, 40 miles southeast of Hanoi, and further damage near the provincial capital of Nam Dinh. Hardly a dispassionate witness, she said: "I believe in my heart, profoundly, that the dikes are being bombed on purpose." From firsthand observation and from pictures shown her by the North Vietnamese, she concluded: "Not only the dikes are being bombed, but hydraulic systems, sluice gates, pumping stations and dams...
...Vietnamese troops had still not dislodged some 500 or 600 Communists inside the thick-walled 19th century citadel in the center of Quang Tri city. On the coast, ARVN troops were equally cautious -with reason. Their first objective was Bong Son, capital of one of three districts in Binh Dinh province to fall to the Communists. ARVN'S slow pace has been frustrating to President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had wanted Quang Tri city retaken before the Paris talks resumed on July 13. It is no more certain that Thieu will be able to make good on another promise...
...been advanced as much by luck as by leadership. In his early years of political activism, he managed, like the young Nikita Khrushchev, to be absent during periods of party turmoil. Between 1954 and 1956, he began to organize political subversion against the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Le Duan was thus preoccupied with other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis led to the fall of the party's secretary...
...slender garrison at Kontum were ordering supplies for a two-day siege -two days because, as one adviser said, "You're never going to get enough ammunition into this place to give you automatic weapons fire for much longer." With some 20,000 Communist troops tearing up Binh Dinh province on the coast, it seemed likely that the Communists might try to accomplish one "spectacular" that narrowly eluded them in 1965: slicing the country...
...country. He also discussed the need to form a strong majority party which would prepare the public for new government programs and which would keep the legislative and executive branches in touch with each other. Thieu's new ruling party would avoid the excesses committed by Ngo Dinh Diem's party...