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...Vietnam to murder North Vietnamese leaders whom he has pronounced guilty of mistreating American POWs. And if the Son Tay raid was a rotten rescue mission, it was certainly a fine dress rehearsal for an attack by helicopter-borne suicide-squads intent on assassinating Pham Van Dong or Vo Nguyen Giap...
Silly Football. With no Nguyen Nielsens around to survey such things, no one knows precisely how THVN is faring in a ratings war with AFVN, the U.S. Armed Forces TV network. But it seems to be far behind. Mission: Impossible is the U.S. show most popular with the Vietnamese; until AFVN discontinued it, Batman also was near the top. Wrestling and boxing matches are popular, too, but not pro football, which the Vietnamese regard as silly...
THVN's audience troubles were documented not long ago when President Nguyen Van Thieu made a major televised address before the National Assembly. A South Vietnamese reporter conducted an informal poll and discovered that close to 90% of Saigon's viewers switched to one of the AFVN channels the minute Thieu came...
...Thieu feels neglected, however, he is not alone. Mme. Nguyen Cao Ky, the fetching wife of Thieu's Vice President, has been heard to complain with some heat: "I am mad at my husband. In the day he's busy with official business; at night he's busy with Gunsmoke...
...used to be that General Vo Nguyen Giap's guerrilla manual was the main source of the U.S. military's woes in Viet Nam. Now the brass is worrying about the U.S. Army Regulations as well. With the help of U.S. civilian lawyers, a few G.I.s in Viet Nam have seized on a little-known passage in the "Army regs" section on conscientious objectors and tried to use it as a legal way out of combat...