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...program, which will feature half-hour speeches by John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Benjamin I. Schwartz ', professor of History and Government, and professors from other schools, will run from 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. A Shell Oil Co. film on the Mekong Delta will be shown during the evening...
...month the Viet Cong "main force" has been lying low, refusing to tangle with the South Vietnamese army. Communist-provoked incidents have dropped from a peak of 1,020 a week during December (long before U.S. air strikes began) to 400 a week last month. In the critical Mekong Delta, South Viet Nam's prized and hotly-contested "rice bowl," night attacks by the Viet Cong slumped to the lowest level in years...
Bloody Scuffle. From Danang to the Mekong Delta patience was growing thin last week on both sides. Taking the initiative, some 3,000 South Vietnamese marines slogged through 38 slimy canals south of Saigon batting away leeches even as they caught slugs from Communist snipers. The toll was light-18 Viet Cong killed-but it was the first government offensive since December in the delta, and U.S. advisers hoped it would encourage the government troops to undertake bigger and more effective pushes not only in the delta, but throughout the country...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at a rare example of international cooperation in Southeast Asia: the project to control the Mekong River...
Hope was in Saigon on Christmas Eve when terrorists bombed the officers' quarters known as the Hotel Brink. Doing a show on Christmas Day at a helicopter base in the Mekong Delta, Hope told the assembled troops: "A funny thing happened to me when I was driving through downtown Saigon to my hotel last night. We met a hotel going the other...