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...engineers, led by tanks and armored personnel carriers. They represented half of the country's strategic reserve. To old hands, the convoy seemed ominously reminiscent of the days before Dienbienphu, when just such relief columns led and manned by French troops had been gobbled up by the Viet Minh. Four miles from Due Co, the Communists struck hard, and the South Vietnamese column backed off at nightfall into a mile-square defense. Then from Pleiku came the alarming word that a brace of Red battalions was sneaking in from behind to surround the relief column. "Blocking Position." In Saigon...
...struggle between Ho Chi Minh [July 16] and the U.S. brings to mind Aesop's fable about the lion and the mosquito. The analogy would be complete if the might of the U.S. lion should prove less effective than the peskiness of Ho Chi Minh, the mosquito. Aesop's victorious mosquito, however, was soon trapped by the web of the spider. And isn't Red China's web all primed...
...North Vietnamese regulars, infiltrated south since the beginning of the year. No longer are the Viet Cong armed mostly with captured U.S. weapons; quantities of Red Chinese assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and rocket launchers have poured into the country via North Viet Nam, either down the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Your cover story on Ho Chi Minh [July 16] is a shocking distortion of history. Your article says that after two months of haggling, "Ho suddenly agreed to a modus vivendi: the Chinese would leave Viet Nam, but there would be no independence. France promised to explore the possibilities. That was hardly what Ho wanted, and Giap's army took to the hills to begin the eight-year guerrilla war." Actually the French had concluded an agreement directly with the Nationalist Chinese that provided for their withdrawal from North Viet Nam. As for the agreement Ho concluded with...
...forgot to mention Uncle Ho's visit to Uncle Sam. After leaving Great Britain before World War I, Ho Chi Minh came to America. While in Harlem, he claims to have learned about "the cruelties of Yankee capitalism and Negro lynching...