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...Saigon airport before dawn, a swarm of helicopters sputtered to life, their whirling blades churning up misty contrails in the cool, damp air. Soon a formation of 13 "Hueys" (UH-1Bs) was airborne and droning away at 2,000 ft. Below, the light of day broke over the Mekong Delta, turning rivers and canals into silvery ribbons among the green paddyfields. Inside the choppers, men long hardened to possible death carefully crushed out their after-breakfast cigarettes...
...sprawled dead within the post: 16 women and children. The government chased the attackers in an operation involving 3,000 men, but the guerrillas vanished. Five more Americans apparently lost their lives -a sergeant shot in an ambush and four airmen aboard an RB-26 that crashed into the Mekong River...
...control about as much South Viet Nam territory as ever, and infiltration of arms and men from North Viet Nam is on the increase. One alleged route: from Red China and North Viet Nam by ship to Sihanoukville, the new port of "neutralist" Cambodia, thence in junks to the Mekong Delta or by truck along Cambodia's U.S.-built "Friendship Highway" and by boat down the Mekong River...
...Bringing to twelve the number of American military personnel believed to be in Viet Cong hands. Two U.S. Special Forces men captured in the Mekong Delta five weeks ago have reportedly been forced to parade through villages with ropes tied round their necks, sometimes crawling on hands and knees. Meanwhile the Communists freed an Illinois-born engineer, Arthur Krause, 29, captured 5½ months ago; his job had been to advise the U.S. military on construction of roads and airstrips. But the Reds let him go only after Krause signed a letter, later broadcast by Radio Hanoi, criticizing...
Just in Time. One of the few concrete decisions leaked from the conference was a hardly surprising agreement to intensify anti-guerrilla operations in South Viet Nam's rice bowl, a wedge-shaped section of the Mekong Delta from Saigon south, where one-third of the population is concentrated and the Viet Cong is strongest. Another decision: to revise the government's strategichamlet program. All too often in the past, reluctant peasants were herded into bleak "fortified" villages that were in fact insufficiently protected because they were too hastily built. Meanwhile the Red guerrillas, who were supposed...