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...include: Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution, by John T. McAlister; Before the Revolution, by Ngo Vinh Long '64; War Comes to Long An, by Jeffrey Race '65; Hell in a Very Small Place, by Bernard Fall; and the selected writings of president Ho Chi Minh and general Vo Nguyen Giap...
...front last week, Vietnamese troops strengthened their hold over the Cambodian salient known, because of its shape, as the Parrot's Beak. Rolling across the border into the beak with captured American armor, artillery, air support*-and tactics-General Vo Nguyen Giap's 60,000-man force easily shattered Khmer Rouge defenders. Although Hanoi acknowledged that Cambodian forces had launched a broad counterattack into seven Vietnamese provinces, General Giap's forces were believed to be still in control of key border sectors and were securing their military victory through the formation of a provisional government composed...
...Parrot's Beak, Giap's troops were traveling in the area where American forces had invaded Cambodia to cut Viet Cong supply lines from the north. Route 1, the highway that Giap's soldiers used for their forays into Cambodia, was the same road along which Richard Nixon had sent U.S. troops in the eight-week U.S. invasion. It was also the route that the battle-tough North Vietnamese 9th Division, one of the units deployed last week, had traveled to enter Saigon...
This time the opposition was not even as strong as that offered by the faltering South Vietnamese army in 1975. From Chau Phu on the Vietnamese side of the border, Giap's artillery pumped shells into Cambodian territory to disperse the Khmer Rouge. Then Giap's troops rolled across under air support from captured American A-37 twin jets...
...Khmer Rouge in the Beak, consisting of about 25,000 troops fighting in small groups, mounted occasional ambushes but were no match for the overpowering Vietnamese. Last week Giap's advance units, bypassing towns, finally halted near Neak Luong on the banks of the Mekong River. Though fighting continued sporadically, Hanoi offered to negotiate and restore diplomatic relations, which Phnom-Penh had broken off as the new year began. Refusing the offer, the Cambodians instead angrily accused Moscow of providing troop commanders and advisers for the Vietnamese invasion. At week's end Phnom-Penh admitted that the Vietnamese...