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More Protest. Next day 5,000 Catholics were scheduled to march from the suburb of Gia Dinh to central Saigon, where they would join with other protesting groups. None of them made it. In Gia Dinh, would-be paraders awoke to discover their district surrounded by a police line. They tried to march anyway. In the melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded...
Peking insists that its legal right to the Paracels dates back 2,000 years, to the Han dynasty. Saigon traces its claim back to the reign of Vietnamese Emperor Gia Long at the beginning of the 19th century. Whatever the legalities. Western analysts were surprised that China regarded the Paracels as important enough to warrant the use of arms, especially when Peking has been portraying itself as a peaceful member of the Asian community. Certainly neither the guano deposits nor swallows' nests nor tortoise shells nor edible sea slugs that constitute the islands' sole resources could have prompted...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and them built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...
...weeks ago, eight North Vietnamese tanks routed ARVN (government) troops guarding the highway junction of Dak Song, two miles from the Cambodian frontier. Since then the province has been cut off from the rest of the country except by air. Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital. Some 4,000 North Vietnamese are entrenched near by at Bu Prang, an advance outpost lost by the South Vietnamese at a cost of 150 killed and missing...
ARVN confidence is not great. A relief column headed for Gia Nghia has been stalled to the north of Dak Song. Streams of UH-1 (Huey) helicopters, laden with troops, take off from the provincial capital only to return half an hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military...