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...other action, Communist forces extended their control over areas of the northern rice-rich province of Binh Dinh in the central coast area, and continued to pressure An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon...
...Binh Dinh, welfare officials said there "has been so much fighting the people don't know which way to run," and they estimated the number of refugees there...
...Sunday morning, December 26, when the planes came. Four U.S. jet fighter-bombers dived through the thick cloud cover and dropped eight demolition bombs and four new model anti-personnel bombs on the Thanh Hoa Hospital. According to the hospital's vice-director, Vo Dinh Chi, two of the buildings were completely destroyed and three others damaged. Nine people were killed, 11 others were wounded...
...core" Viet Cong areas, some of which have been almost continuously under Viet Minh and Viet Cong control since the 1940s. They include the Camau peninsula, much of the Delta coast, the Plain of Reeds, War Zones "C" and "D" north and west of Saigon, and portions of Binh Dinh and Quang Ngai in the central part of the country. In some villages an entire generation has grown up under communist rule. In some of these areas the VC-NLF has been able to develop a well-organized structure of government at the village and even district level...
...THESE SAME PROVINCES also illustrate the limits of pacification. When military forces were withdrawn from Binh Dinh and Hau Nghia, security rapidly began to deteriorate. The fragility of the whole pacification effort was reflected by the extent of its at least temporary collapse during the Tet offensive, despite the fact that the offensive was directed at the cities rather than the pacification cadres. The acid test of pacification is whether a locality develops the will and the means to defend itself against Viet Cong attack or infiltration. With a few exceptions, mostly among the communal groups, the current pacification effort...