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...Strike Hard." Even as the decks were being cleared, Radio Hanoi blared an order to the Viet Cong to "strike hard, very hard, at the enemy on all battlefields." The Viet Cong lost no time in obeying. Guerrillas struck at two points near Danang, overran the town of Ducphong, beating to death four U.S. advisers, then killed another American and wounded a dozen in a battle outside Saigon. And at midweek, reports began reaching the capital that the Viet Cong had dealt the South Viet Nam army one of its worst defeats of the war in a battle near Phumy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: A Look Down That Long Road | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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