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...query about allies, concludes Fall, "seems to have been the key question and the key stumbling block." As it was, Communist gunners continued to blast French resupply planes, isolating the bloodied garrison. Within five weeks Dienbienphu fell, after 10,000 men had died for it-8,000 Viet Minh attackers and 2,000 French troops. Within a day of the garrison's fall, France sued for peace...
...tying it to Operation Cedar Falls, which razed V.C. farms and granaries in the Iron Triangle last month. "Are your rations scarce?" it asks. "Three hundred of you have rallied, and they are now where they can be well fed and secure. How about you?" Another quotes Ho Chi Minh: "Remember Uncle's own words as you consider your fate: 'The war may last five, ten, 20 years or longer...
...rebuilt villages, the Manila Conference, schools and a diesel train. The Chieu Hoi men will even distribute 100,000 games played with dice to V.C. families. In the game, both sides try to get all their pawns to the defection centers through such obstacles as the Ho Chi Minh trail and monsoon rains. Players are sometimes required to start over because of fatigue, worry and air strikes...
Playing Lysistrata. In command of Chieu Hoi is Colonel Phan Van Anh, a stocky, spirited veteran who was himself once a member of the Communist Viet Minh. Anh makes quick inspections of the country's 44 Chieu Hoi camps, followed by a notary public who dishes out piasters for the rewards and rations that in the past have too often been skimmed off by corrupt administrators. "You know," says Anh, "the enemy of yesterday may be very good...
...bogged down on the Ho Chi Minh trail: start over...