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...Kontum province in the monsoon-drenched central highlands, where a major Red offensive may be shaping up, the Communists took over the district capital of Tou Morong; heeding the advice of U.S. officers, who feared that rescue troops might fall into an ambush, the South Vietnamese government temporarily abandoned any attempt to recapture the town...
...initial assault, the Reds overran the town, held it for three hours while other Viet Cong units ambushed three relief convoys in succession at almost the same spot on the highway. The toll: 106 government soldiers dead, 20 wounded or missing. Other Viet Cong traps clanged shut near Kontum and Quin-hon, and a full battalion of Reds struck the town of Binhchanh, just ten miles west of Saigon. The defending Ranger company was saved by armed U.S. helicopters, but the very fact that the Communists could mount a battalion-sized assault that close to the capital left many military...
...another eleven weeks-or another eleven hours for that matter. And many military men believe the Viet Cong are currently lying low, waiting for the rainy season in order to launch an all-out attack in the central highlands. Their probable aim: to capture a provincial town like Kontum or Quinhon, declare it the rebel capital, and thus win an important psychopolitical victory that could topple the Saigon regime. But if they fail (and clearly U.S. policy is determined to make them fail), then Dr. Quat's chances of surviving will climb another notch. And with him on that...
...French, later was transferred to an agricultural camp. Early in 1960 he was back in uniform, this time learning cast-iron production and simple blast furnace design. Then Cam and 35 other metallurgists hit the Ho Chi Minh Trail, set up a secret Viet Cong iron foundry in Kontum province. Cam built kilns and smelted the ore from nearby iron deposits to make grenades and mines. He was captured by Vietnamese Rangers one day while gathering corn...