Word: kienhoa
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...innocent caught in the crossfire. On a Mekong Delta back road, a country cop flags down a row of buses packed with peasants, cabbages and poultry, to let a column of armored personnel-carriers rumble past to a fire fight just ahead. In a village hut in Kienhoa province, an old woman lies dying, broiled lobster-red from napalm, while a soldier spoons watery soup between her flayed lips. At another hamlet a teen-age girl, driven mad from the explosions of mortar shells, runs screaming from her house across the paddy-fields, stark nude...
...more like a full-scale conventional war. Ominously, the Communist Viet Cong are often forsaking the shadowy, hit-run tactics they have heretofore used in favor of challenging the government in set-piece battles. In the past fortnight alone, the Reds have mounted battalion-strength attacks in Tayninh and Kienhoa provinces, as well as the Delta village of Goden. Last week, in Chuong Thien province, they unleashed their biggest assault...
Election Toll. Diem responded by handing Colonel Thao command of vital, rice-growing Kienhoa province in the Mekong River delta, where previous commanders had failed. There Thao has cut the guerrillas down to size with skill and daring at their own nighttime jungle tactics. "When there is too much light, you can see nothing," says Thao. "The truth is in the night...
Quick Action. In Kienhoa, Thao found the local security chief had been extorting money from the villagers by threatening them with prison. Thao arrested him. He also freed 1,200 political prisoners held in the local jail without evidence. Said Thao: "If a peasant sabotages a road, he's obviously under Communist pressure, and if he's under Communist pressure, that means he's not getting government protection. Why should he go to prison?" Dismayed to learn that Kien-hoa's 1,500 crack troops waited days for orders before going to the help of besieged...
...just four months, Thao has recaptured about half of the 75 villages once controlled by the Communists in Kienhoa. He has driven the surviving 800 guerrillas into a 130-sq.-mi. pocket and hopes to have them cleaned out within a year. He has torn down most of the jails in the province, built hospitals and schools, and he is now training 370 schoolteachers to replace corrupt village officials. Says Thao: "It is a long, slow process. We cannot win unless the people are on our side...
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