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...them." In response, a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered at the school to wait for the candidates on the ten civilian slates who were scheduled to make Quang Tri their first stop on a seven-day campaign swing from the DMZ in the north to the Mekong Delta in the south...
South Viet Nam's sprawling Mekong Delta is a military planner's nightmare. May-to-October monsoon rains churn the paddyfields into oceans of viscous slop that bogs down troopers and tanks alike. But for all its unpleasant mud, the Delta is far too vital to be ignored. It is the home of one-third of South Viet Nam's 16.5 million people, produces fully one-half of the country's food. It is also infested with Viet Cong. As long as the U.S. has concentrated most of its military muscle in other areas...
...former Premier Tran Van Huong; National Assembly Speaker Phan Khac Suu. The Thieu-Ky ticket is still strongly favored because both men are well known, and they have army backing. Tran Van Huong is considered the leading civilian candidate. A Southerner with a large following in the Mekong Delta, Huong as Premier won considerable sympathy for his efforts to stabilize the government before the military replaced him in 1965. Says he: "The people have confidence...
...piasters (about $17,000) has been put on his head. Viet Cong agents have been caught bugging the phones at the security house in Saigon to which Be has been transferred under heavy guard. Be's home village of Kim Son in the Red-infested Mekong Delta has become the scene of recurrent terror...
Boys on Bikes. It was in this situation that Johnson sent Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to Saigon two weeks ago for his ninth visit in six years. Briskly making the rounds, from battered Marine camps near the Demilitarized Zone to Army installations in the marshy Mekong Delta, McNamara probed two questions over and over: Were field commanders overestimating Communist strength? Were the Allied forces on hand being used at something less than maximum effectiveness? Rather early in his five-day visit, it became plain that the Secretary thought the answer to both questions...