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...even then it will not be self-sufficient. Partly because Washington does not want Saigon to have an air force advanced enough to tempt it into unwise adventures, VNAF will not be given the long-range planes that would enable it to keep pressure up on the Ho Chi Minh Trail or hold Hanoi's supersonic MIGs...
...South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the city held "at all costs" and sent a crack armored column of 20,000 men northward to relieve it. Fearful that the column might be trapped and cut off from the rear, the area commander, General Nguyen Van Minh, halted the majority of his troops 15 miles from...
...stuck on Highway 13. The reason: the terrain was open and flat, ideal for bombing enemy troops and for taking up a defensive position should the North Vietnamese choose to attack. The NVA declined the bait, and only harassed the column while the troops' morale and supplies dwindled. Minh, who has built up a reputation as the most successful of Saigon's generals at avoiding a set battle, kept insisting that he was on the verge of "a great victory." His apparent reasoning: since An Loc had not yet fallen, "our reinforcements saved the city...
...been running this operation, the whole province would have been secure a week ago," fumed one American adviser. "Minh is the most insecure man I've ever seen." Time and again, U.S. and South Vietnamese fighter-bombers cleared an area in preparation for a South Vietnamese advance that never came. That left the choice to the North Vietnamese. As long as Minh refused to move, they could leave a small force behind to keep the An Loc relief column pinned down and slip southwest for an attack on the provincial capital of Tay Ninh-to which elements...
Died. Hsieh Fuchih, 63, former secret police chief of China; in Peking. Hsieh commanded 150,000 troops in the Korean War, and later aided Ho Chi Minh's forces at Dienbienphu. As Minister of Public Security in the mid-'60s he played an ambiguous role in the Cultural Revolution. He clashed with army commanders opposed to Red Guard excesses, then he violently quelled the Red Guard activists in Peking. Hsieh thus made enemies on both sides but survived them to remain a Maoist in good standing...