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...Laos with a caravan of 300 men and 200 pack horses carrying nine tons of opium. He had no intention of paying the $80,000 in tolls usually collected on a shipment of that size passing through the Chinese generals' territory. When the caravan reached the Mekong River and the Laotian border town of Ban Houei Sai, the Chinese irregulars were waiting...
...disdained even to answer the charges. Instead, he made a "nonpolitical " trip into the Mekong Delta, where he predicted that his ticket would win more votes than all ten civilian candidates combined. Thieu did his part by calling a press conference in Saigon and announcing plans for a purge of all corrupt and incompetent army officers, "from generals down to second lieutenants." Thieu also followed the lead of his civilian opponents and promised that, if elected, he would make a peace bid to Hanoi. If he were to receive some sign of a favorable response, he said, he would propose...
...heavy bombers that fly all the way from Guam, is largely in the hands of Westmoreland and his generals. Westmoreland has had to clear with Washington such operations as thrusts into the DMZ, the shelling of North Viet Nam, the movement of U.S. troops into the precarious and populous Mekong Delta. It is in moves of that sort, and primarily in the air war over North Viet Nam, that Johnson takes close command. He has made final decisions on some 300 targets in North Viet...
...Vietnam and in the renewal of Vietnam's status as a food producer and exporter lies important potential for the nation's future. The goals of these new programs should, therefore, be national in scope and should be aimed at the realization of the enormous potential of the Mekong Delta...
Whether or not the civilians pull out of the campaign, Thieu and Ky are likely to remain the heavy favorites. Although they are not campaigning with the civilians, they are showing no signs of complacency. Last week Ky helicoptered from one Mekong Delta hamlet to another, snipped a ribbon that officially reopened the long-besieged Mang Thit-Nicolai canal (TIME, Aug. 11), handed out gifts of U.S. outboard motors and blankets, chatted with the villagers. He was not campaigning, Ky said with a straight face. He was only doing his duty as Premier...