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...restored, a firmer measure can be taken - even though the final, definitive picture may not emerge for some months yet. For military and administrative purposes, South Viet Nam is divided into four corps areas that run from north to south, plus the special capital zone of Saigon and surrounding Gia Dinh province. Last week TIME sent a team of five correspondents from its Saigon bureau, one to each of the corps areas and the capital zone, to find out just how much havoc the Communist at tacks had wrought, and what the allies are doing to repair it. Their reports...
...Christians. The major task of church groups now is trying to help the huge army of homeless refugees created by the onslaught. Viet Nam Christian Service, supported by Lutheran World Relief, the Mennonites and Church World Service, has assumed responsibility for refugee relief in a number of areas, including Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon; often braving Communist fire, service volunteers have scrounged lumber to rebuild homes, hauled food, water and sleeping mats to refugee camps. Catholic Relief Services is now attempting to house and feed 87,000 new refugees in 27 centers...
...inability of both the United States and the South Vietnamese to cope with the attacks. We watched the government of South Vietnam and the American military call in air strikes against their own cities and their own civilians. We watched the whole Eastern industrial suburbs of Saigon, Gia Dinh, burned out, sector after sector, for five days running. And the thousands--hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring out of the area. We watched the whole of the area just south of the Ton Son Nhut Airport being burned out segment after segment for four and five days running. When...
...Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense or even the White House. In any case, the yes or no comes back within hours. Momyer makes no secret of the fact that he would like some of the targeting restrictions lifted, notably on Haiphong harbor and the Gia Long airfield. Of the handful of remaining major taboo targets, Gia Long has been spared because of its use by commercial planes, but it has also become the last safe haven for Hanoi's remaining 14 MIGs. Momyer has little use for the upcoming holiday bombing pause, noting that...
...Fuel. Of the six MIG bases in the North, only the one at Gia Lam, which is also Hanoi's commercial airport, has not been bombed-but no more than ten MIGs can operate from Gia Lam. As a result, while 90% of the North Vietnamese force was once kept in the North, about 80% of it is now based across the border in China. The Peitun-Yunnani base in Southwest China harbors not only about 50 MIGs but eight Russian Ilyushin medium bombers not yet used in the war. None of the MIGs have yet flown...