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...first signed up for a two-year hitch in 1968, fought in Viet Nam and then returned home to Batavia, N.Y., and a job as a lathe operator. The work paid well - much better than the Army - but Cerce began yearning for the military life. "The days on the Mekong came back, running patrols and not wondering what in hell you're doing with your life," he recalls. After talking it over with his wife LaVonne, Cerce re-enlisted and knew immediately he had made the right decision...
...agricultural problems, but government incompetence has been the principal cause. Bureaucratic foul-ups hindered the planting of new strains of rice that are more resistant to drought, and the distribution of pesticides in areas infested by plant pests has been delayed. Rice production is declining in the once prosperous Mekong Delta. Hanoi had announced that it was willing to trade consumer goods such as electric fans for rice, hoping to induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When the government failed to deliver the promised consumer goods, disappointed farmers began producing less...
...much the same way, some military analysts suspect, Dung's initial advance into Cambodia last month was intended as a limited operation to secure the eastern bank of the Mekong River. But fierce fighting between September and December so decimated the 40,000 Khmer Rouge forces stationed along the border that Dung decided to repeat his 1975 triumph and launch an all-out attack. The Vietnamese, using in some cases captured U.S. equipment, were overwhelming in both numbers and skill. In a single day, aided by Soviet pontoon bridges, an entire mechanized division of 10,000 men crossed...
...thrust into Cambodia, concentrating on Route 19 in the north. Routes 7 and 13 in the central Fishhook area of the Vietnamese-Cambodian border, and Routes 1 and 2 in the south. One of the first provincial capitals to fall, two weeks ago, was Kratie, which dominates the northern Mekong approach to Phnom-Penh. The Vietnamese and rebel forces reached the Mekong in several places from the Laotian border southward to cut off Phnom-Penh from the north...
...last report, the insurgents had begun a siege of Kompang Cham, a town along the Mekong River only 45 miles northeast of the Cambodian capital...