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...supplies southward-U.S. troops kept up a steady surveillance. In War Zone C 75 miles northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, the U.S. mounted "Operation Gadsden" shortly before Tet to prevent the buildup of the Viet Cong's tough 9th Division. Though two companies of American infantrymen were lured into an ambush and took "moderate" casualties in escaping, the U.S. sweep gained good field positions for the post-truce period. It also turned up and destroyed two camouflaged bridges crossing into Cambodia that the Communists had been using for infiltration...
...scythe through the enemy's longtime nests in the Iron Triangle 20 miles north of Saigon-razing villages and transplanting their civilian populations, bulldozing and burning away houses, fruit trees, rubber plantations, rice granaries and tropical thicket. In its largest operation of the war, employing 16,000 infantrymen, the U.S. was selectively applying a new strategy: a purposeful policy of scorched earth, not only to chase the enemy from his nests but to make those nests permanently uninhabitable...
...destruction of Ben Sue, a Saigon River village complex that supported the Viet Cong, was typical. It took only a minute and a half for 60 helicopters to descend on the village with a battalion of the U.S. 1st Division. While loudspeakers warned residents to stay in their homes, infantrymen quickly sealed off the town, catching many of its Viet Cong defenders by surprise. The villagers were assembled and the men between 15 and 45 led off for questioning. Within three days, Ben Sue was deserted, its people and their possessions loaded aboard boats and shipped twelve miles downriver...
Three main force Viet Cong units operate out of U Minh, "The Forest of Darkness," and Air Force fighter-bombers pounded the drop area with bombs and napalm before the big jump-largest in more than a year. Another 4,800 South Vietnamese infantrymen were helilifted into the search-and-destroy mission, which in its first two days netted 89 enemy dead and a rich cache of weapons. More important, it may well be a prelude to the imminent entry of U.S. troops into the Delta...
Ramparts magazine greeted the New Year with a straight left jab to the public jaw. A full-page ad in the New York Times last week featured a blowup of the January cover: a nauseous photo of a crucifixion complete with a pudgy Jesus and two U.S. infantrymen standing guard with bayonets. The magazine, which came out last week, contains what its management claims are pictures of some of the "one million children killed, wounded or burned in the war America is carrying on in Viet Nam." It also advances another conspiracy theory on the Kennedy assassination...