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...other side, the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese fighter who comes in from the heat can often within min utes collect tangible rewards at a government reception center. The rewards include fresh food, medical care and cash. In the four years since the government launched its Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program, 83,000 Viet Cong have defected. That is the equivalent of 33 enemy regiments...
Soon after arriving in Hue I went in a Jeep with three Viet Nam officers to inspect sites where the bodie of executed men were said to have been found. We went first to Gia Hoi high school in District Two, east of the citadel Here 22 new graves had been found, each containing between three and seven bodies. It is still a horrifying place The officers told me that the bodies had been tied and, again, most had been shot through the head, but "some had been buried alive...
...ambassador," Long said, "came out, pointed his finger at me like this and said sharply, 'Are you Mr. Long?'" Long said Diem then pointed at each of the other three students (including Long's wife Nguyen Hoi Chan '68) in the same fashion...
...regular forces. And their effectiveness cannot always be measured by a single night's work. Two days after the Prews had crashed the propaganda chief's funeral, nine frightened Viet Cong from the raided village, including the regional chief, turned themselves in to the government as Chien Hoi defectors...
...stanch this wound, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara last week confirmed long-rumored plans for a 47-mile barrier across Viet Nam just below the DMZ. It will stretch from the South China Sea to Laos, running only 25 miles south of the two great walls of Dong Hoi and Truong Duc, erected in the 1630s by the Nguyen dynasty to fend off the warring Trinh emperors of the North...