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Viet Cong terrorists enter Saigon al most at will and control scores of villages in the province of Gia Dinh, which completely surrounds the city. Enemy troops and equipment move freely into the Saigon area along infiltration trails from the Mekong Delta to the south and by motorized sampan along the Saigon River from the north. Eight Viet Cong battalions operate within a radius of 25 miles of the capital, extorting food, supplies and money from fright ened merchants and others among greater Saigon's 2,200,000 population...
When the weather cleared in the Red River delta to the north, seven flights of American fighter-bombers hammered the Ha Gia fuel dump 14 miles outside of Hanoi and only three miles from Phuc Yen, North Viet Nam's largest airbase. It was the fourth raid on Ha Gia in two months and served notice on Hanoi that the U.S. would continue blasting strategic targets near the capital, despite the recent international uproar (TIME, Dec. 23) triggered by North Viet Nam's discredited charges that the U.S. was bombing residential areas inside Hanoi itself...
...year to 7,000 at present. Still, military men believe that the infiltration rate would probably be much higher without the bombings. Their value was dramatically illustrated two weeks ago when, according to U.S. officers in Saigon, American planes sighted a 600-man North Vietnamese battalion moving through Mu Gia Pass, one of the prime portals to the South. The planes swooped in and virtually wiped out the battalion...
...husband fled south to Saigon in 1954, and she soon became known in the refugee-swollen quarter of Gia Dinh as a woman who got things done. She organized a neighborhood school, founded a Catholic Mothers' Association, arranged housing and relief allotments for widows...
...thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...