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...were captured, as were 903 individual and 110 larger weapons -almost enough armament to equip a regiment. That was evidence enough of the fresh influx of North Vietnamese troops that U.S. intelligence had long anticipated once the rainy season ended. Where the infiltration rate down the Ho Chi Minh trail was once 1,000 a month, it is now probably running 2,500, bringing, to date, seven, possibly eight North Vietnamese regiments into South Viet...
...said one man. An American officer saw a single Red soldier charge a squad of montagnards-"yards" in G.I. parlance-brandishing grenades and screaming fiercely. The yards broke and ran, while the U.S. officer dropped to one knee, adjusted his sights, and in six rounds felled the sprinting Viet Minh attacker. "Damn," he said later. "Give me 200 men that well disciplined, and I'll capture this whole country...
...befriended as India. Sihanouk, whose country has no border with China, fears its domination. Marshal Lin Pao's recent manifesto unabashedly admits China's designs on the underdeveloped world. Could a Communist Vietnam be anything but a Chinese satellite, under a government far more repressive than that of any Minh, or Kahn...
...North Viet Nam's industrial complex-as LeMay demands-is too high. Such attacks would do little to hamper North Viet Nam's war effort, since most of its weapons and ammunition come from Red China and Russia. More important, goes the U.S. reasoning, if Ho Chi Minh's "hostage" industries-coal and iron mines, port facilities and Red River dams-were taken out, he might enlarge the war by sending his 450,000-man army south in an all-out move to take South Viet...
...times as much money as was spent on psywar a year ago. The mark of Zorro was evident last week in the village of Phung Hiep, a district capital in the Mekong Delta where a South Vietnamese "rural spirit" drama troupe was busy maligning Red China and Ho Chi Minh. In between propaganda skits, the troupe sang classical Vietnamese ballads, and played boogie-woogie...