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...cannot have it both ways," writes TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "Either the North Vietnamese were badly beaten in their effort to take the town and therefore do not have a force of any great size still blocking the road, or else Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh and his troops have been, in the bitter words of one Western military expert in Saigon, 'culpable in their failure to push on in there.' " By keeping the column stationary, Minh and his officers may actually have exposed it to at least as many casualties as it would...
President Nguyen Van Thieu took advantage of the improved military situation to announce that the next three months would be devoted to an all-out counterattack. Obviously worried that Washington might be on the verge of a ceasefire, Thieu evidently judged that if he is to survive politically, he must spur the military into making a genuine counteroffensive...
What happens next? The North's Vo Nguyen Giap has, in addition to his forces outside South Viet Nam, at least 80,000 men left within the country. Unless President Thieu and his forces can keep the North Vietnamese from forming up in battle strength again-or some sort of tentative cease-fire is agreed upon-most U.S. advisers in Saigon fully expect the North Vietnamese to strike once more, perhaps between mid-July and mid-September...
...civilians. Their primary hospital is now a bunker. Some men have been there for as long as a month, with more lightly wounded comrades cooking for them over smoky wood fires on the bunker steps. There is no sterilization for instruments, and there is a shortage of catgut. Dr. Nguyen Van Quy, who performed 200 operations in two months, has taken to using thread from sandbags for sutures...
...forces at An Loc; five other regiments in the Delta have been assigned to guard the major infiltration route from Cambodia, where two North Vietnamese divisions are trying to cross the frontier into South Viet Nam. "If I can contain the enemy to the north," says Lieut. General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, 39, commander of Military Region IV (the Delta), "I will have no problem with the forces inside the country...