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Most of the fighting was centered in the heavily populated and agriculturally rich Mekong River Delta area, known as Military Region IV. The Communists launched their attacks-primarily by rocket and mortar-against bridges, roads, district and provincial capitals, and government outposts manned by the increasingly feeble regional militia. Kien Tuong and Dinh Tuong provinces were particularly hard hit (see map). Communists in Kien Tuong, using a shoulder-fired missile, shot down a huge Chinook helicopter, killing all 54 government troops aboard. A major target was Highway 4, linking the Delta with Saigon...
Saigon's forces also face serious internal problems. The regional militia has frequently proved to be unreliable. So far this year, militiamen have abandoned 40% of their 2,500 outposts in the Delta. The morale of regular ARVN troops, which has seldom been high, has recently fallen even farther, due in part to the continuing corruption within the Thieu regime and among ranking military officers (TIME, Nov. 11). Moreover, Saigon's economic squeeze-the result of the increased price of imported oil and a decrease in U.S. aid-has forced ARVN to economize on the battlefield. Many outposts...
Many gun owners say this "right" to carry a handgun is guaranteed by the second amendment to the Constitution, which speaks of the states' rights to support a militia. But the Supreme Court has ruled time and time again that the second amendment has nothing to do with the individual's right to bear arms...
...doubt to prevent just that, the party has ordered a buildup of highly politicized, worker-led urban militia-apparently to counter the P.L.A.'s role as a national police force. In one remarkable slight to the professional military, Shanghai's model militia force was pa raded before a group of the city's top political leaders; incredibly, the local P.L.A. garrison commander was not even invited to the event. Returning the insult, a majority of P.L.A. regional commanders, in what looks like an act of open insubordination, reportedly refused to attend a meeting called by Peking...
There has been much discussion about the so-called "right to bear arms," a right which the U.S. Supreme Court (four times in the last hundred years) has said applies to the militia, not the individual. Every citizen has above all the right to live. The right to live, not in fear of being blasted to eternity by a 38-caliber pistol, but in harmony with his community...