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...more and more mastered by Asians themselves. In Viet Nam, it has bought time for independent Asians to get on with the business of nation building; over the next decade, it will pour out at least $1 billion a year to provide economic thrust, including funds for a vast Mekong Delta project. Its goal is a community of nonCommunist, though not necessarily aggressively antiCommunist, Asian nations that will act as a balance to Red China and create a pattern of practical meaningful cooperation...
...told, the free nations of Asia have embarked upon more cooperative action in the past year than ever before in their thousands of years of history. Though often historically at odds, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam are working together on joint development of the immense resources of the Mekong River. Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand have set up the Association for Southeast Asia, an economic and social alliance aimed at ultimately achieving a Common Market...
...fresh Communist troops into South Viet Nam since January. The Communists also have an effective "recruiting" program that still supplies between 10,000 and 15,000 men a month. Many of these recruits-as well as much of the rice on which the Viet Cong live-come from the Mekong Delta region, a huge area in which, instead of combat units, the U.S. has advisory teams that work with the South Vietnamese army. Because the Viet Cong are able to operate so freely in the Delta, apparently as the result of at least a partial accommodation with the South Vietnamese...
Since American manpower in South Viet Nam has been engaged most spectacularly with the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese regulars in the northern half of the country, the daily headlines tend to overlook another sprawling sector of the war: the Mekong Delta below Saigon. In terms of bullets fired and casualties recorded, the Delta is a good deal quieter than it was two years ago. But it has hardly lost its importance...
...April, the beach smashers had to learn to become pinpoint artillerists. It was no easy task. The spin-stabilized 5-in. rocket is not nearly so accurate as a naval rifle shell. Moreover, no one knew if the squat, underpowered ships could safely negotiate Viet Nam's tortuous Mekong River Delta-a prime necessity if their rockets' five-mile strike range was to be applied effectively against inland Viet Cong installations. Slowly but steadily, the rocket men overcame the built-in limitations of their ships and in the process wrote a new manual on shore bombardment...