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...hardest-hit province in the Delta is Chuong Thien, near the U Minh Forest, which was cleared of enemy forces by the 21st Division last year but is now a Communist stronghold once more. Four villages and 23 hamlets have been lost in Chuong Thien during the past month, though many were later retaken. The village of Hoa Thuan was held by the Communists for only a short time, but it was long enough for them to murder as many as 20 local officials. "We've lost roughly 25,000 people from such areas," says Colonel John Meese...
...inside South Viet Nam, thereby defeating ARVN'S two-year effort to keep the North Vietnamese regulars bottled up in Cambodia and Laos. Between April 1 and August 1, according to U.S. estimates, the North Vietnamese will have sent at least 37,000 replacements down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. That will not be enough to replenish their losses in the offensive, but it is clearly enough to let them strike again later this year...
GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH, 56, a former chief of state. Despite his reputation as a poor administrator, "Big Minn," a Buddhist, is widely admired for his integrity. Although he withdrew from last year's presidential election charging that the U.S. had allowed it to be rigged in Thieu's favor, Minh may now be more willing to challenge Thieu's rule. Recently, he has been circulating a petition demanding that the President resign because of the failure of his leadership...
When DeVoss left Saigon last week with two veteran combat photographers, Le Minh and Dirck Halstead, he was hoping to enter An Loc with the rescue force's first wave. But the advancing column was still ten miles south of its objective when the enemy mortar rounds started to fall...
...other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis led to the fall of the party's secretary-general, Truong Chinh. President Ho Chi Minh then assumed the title of secretary-general himself, but he assigned Le Duan to run the party for him. Le Duan was officially confirmed as first secretary...