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Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
...come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength is clustered in pockets of outposts or in major cities-from Khe Sanh, the western anchor, through the Rockpile, Camp Carroll and Con Thien to Quang Tri city, Hué and Danang. Few of the allied bases are accessible now except by air. Last week the North Vietnamese infiltrated a fresh division into South Viet Nam, bringing to 50,000 their troop concentration in 1 Corps. Enemy troops now virtually surround Quang Tri city. One division is poised north of Con Thien and Gio Linh...
...example of an irresponsible journalistic buildup. A few years back, Joe McCarthy was similarly elevated, says Smith, but he at least was a U.S. Senator. Carmichael is "basically a nobody, who, before the press took notice of him, had achieved nothing. He failed to win a following-except from us with our cameras and note pads-in the rural South and in the city ghettos." Thanks to the big play the press gave Carmichael, however, a civil rights leader recently told Smith, "if I say no to Stokely, you fellows won't print it in one sentence...
Newsmen would be free to print anything they could find out, except during the trial itself. Then they would have a general duty not to write anything "willfully designed to affect the outcome of the trial"-although to prove such willful design would not be easy...
...covering Viet Nam north of the 16th parallel) as a free state." As for South Viet Nam, it had been accepted by a majority of the U.N. General Assembly as a "peace-loving state" and would have been admitted to membership in 1952 and again in 1957 except for Russia's Security Council vetoes...