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...lost support for the perpetrators, the NLF terror has built support by eliminating hated outsiders, who usually were foisted on a village by the central Saigon government. Lacking the unlimited support of a wealthy superpower, the NLF was forced to rely on the support of the villagers. The 1968 Hue massacre which has reached legendary status in American propaganda, was indiscriminate, but as Frances Fitzgerald notes in her acclaimed book, Fire in the Lake, the Hue massacre seems to have been the work of troops gone beserk. Unlike the indiscriminate terror of the United States and Saigon governments, the killing...
...North Vietnamese have not captured Hue or any other major city except Quang Tri, which they have successfully defended for two months with a constant artillery barrage against some of Saigon's best troops. Instead, they have been fanning out over the countryside and expanding their area of operation. The North Vietnamese have been relying primarily on the use of small units, though their soldiers are frequently supported by tanks and long-range 130-mm. guns. In many sections of the Mekong Delta, as a result of steadily mounting pressure from the small units of Communist troops, security...
During the 1968 Tet offensive, for instance, the Communists executed more than 3,000 South Vietnamese in the former capital of Hue. Even though the brutality has been on a smaller scale during this year's Easter offensive, the Communists have murdered at least 200 people and imprisoned 6,000 in the Communist-controlled portion of Binh Dinh province. Allied intelligence officials believe that the number executed will surpass 500 before the whole of the province has been retaken by the South Vietnamese...
...other three LORAN stations are located in U-Tapao, Thailand, (home base for the B-52 force here) on a South Vietnamese prison camp island off the southern tip of South Vietnam, and near Hue, South Vietnam, close to the Demilitarized Zone...
...shelling underscored the greatest risk inherent in the South Vietnamese push into Quang Tri: the possibility that the Communists might outflank General Truong's forces and at long last mount their often predicted attack on Hue. So far there is no certainty that such an attack is coming. The city's defense is primarily in the hands of a single ARVN division, the 1st, which would be hard pressed if the enemy tried a flanking movement that culminated in a sudden jab at Hue. South Vietnamese commanders seemed confident that a Communist attack on Hue could be kept...