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...chairs. On New Year's Eve in 1971 Peggie Duggan received an unexpected visit from an Air Force major with a grim message: the F-4D jet fighter flown by her husband, Major William Young Duggan, 38, had been shot down that same day over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. It was his second combat tour in Viet Nam, his 454th combat mission-and in the 17 months since then nothing has been heard about...
...dissident intellectuals and professionals and at least ten battalions of Cambodian-born Vietnamese-a minority group that was massacred after the coup by Lon Nol's troops, who whipped up traditional anti-Vietnamese enmity to a frenzy. There are also battle-seasoned remnants of the old Khmer Viet Minh who fought against the French and went to North Viet Nam after the 1954 Geneva agreements. Intelligence sources estimate that 1,800 of these men have been put in command positions...
...called "the Blue-Eyed Sorcerer" and "the Icebox" by the Vietnamese, who respected his courtly patience but feared his power. "Ah, if we had had a Vietnamese like him to put up against Ho Chi Minh," officials used to lament, "how very different things might have been...
...Administration's reasoning was that North Viet Nam had already moved extensive military supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the past three months. Perhaps now, with the rainy season due to begin before very long, the North Vietnamese might be prepared to settle some of the disputed points that were not resolved by the Paris agreement. At week's end Hanoi raised some doubts about whether the Kissinger-Tho meeting would be held at all, apparently in an effort to pressure the U.S. into resuming the clearing of mines in North Vietnamese waters. But, with preliminary...
...last week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...