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...MINING WATERWAYS. The aerial bombing of Ho Chi Minh's realm has successively diverted traffic from rail to road and, increasingly, from road to water. To impede two of the water supply routes, Navy A-6 jets took off from the carrier Enterprise by night and dropped mines to the bottom of the Song Ca and Kien Giang rivers. The U.S. uses several varieties of mines, which can be touched off variously by contact, by magnetic detection of a metal hull passing overhead, by sound, or even by the slight change in water pressure caused by any boat within...
...their drive, the Americans destroyed Viet Cong camps, food supplies and enough concrete bunkers to shelter a division, discovered such incidental supplies as 8,200 pairs of Ho Chi Minh sandals, more than 40 tons of rice and two smokeless kitchens complete with a table set with fresh flowers and a bottle of Russian liqueur. In the first two days of the assault, however, they succeeded in killing only 19 Viet Cong. Later, as their horseshoe-shaped net tightened, a few more Viet Cong began showing up. In a series of firefights, the Viet Cong death toll had risen...
...Viet Cong became Hoi Chanh (returnees) during the week after the holiday began, a record for any week in the war. "More importantly," says U.S. Psy-Warrior M. L. Osborne, "we're finally getting a few oldtimers-men in their 30s and 40s who were with the Viet Minh." In short, even Ho's hardened veterans are getting weary...
Fall had visited this barren real estate 14 years earlier and used its nickname as the title of a book, The Street Without Joy, a chronicle of the French battle against the Viet Minh. Now a professor of government at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Fall was back, sweat-stained and bearded, to observe the perilous Street at close range once more...
Fall built up an extraordinary store of knowledge and a remarkable string of sources on seven working trips to Viet Nam, including a personal interview with Ho Chi Minh on the subject of the war. From his experiences he turned out not only Street Without Joy, a military classic, but his definitive Two Viet Nams and an account of the French defeat at Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place (TIME, Feb. 10). Two months ago, Fall made a return trip to South Viet Nam on a Guggenheim fellowship for a year's study of the psychology and tactics...