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...strong and fresh from the jungles of Tay Ninh near Saigon, was in Chu Lai; more G.I.s were on their way. Their mission: to take over the security of Chu Lai and its environs while the Marines of Lieut. General Lewis Walt, who commands Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces, move northward to protect what has become one of the Viet Nam war's most contested areas...
...Easy way to win a bet: ask which are the southernmost, northernmost, westernmost and easternmost states. Answers: Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska-and Alaska, which is easternmost because it crosses the 180th meridian...
...massed in Quang Tri province next to the 17th parallel's demilitarized zone. It was the first full division ever reported to have come down, it numbered 8,000-10,000 men, and its apparent mission was to deliver a sudden and overwhelming attack upon the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, including the old imperial city...
From 100 canny Australian jungle warriors seeded as advisers through the northernmost I Corps, through the tough South Korean infantrymen and marines nearly 25,000 strong on the central coast, down to the 4,550 Australian "diggers" and New Zealand artillerymen near Saigon (see map), the other fighting allies are present and accounted for. If they are sometimes overlooked in the flow of dispatches, they are hardly ever by the Viet Cong. For each contingent has brought its own unique style and skills to the Viet Nam conflict...
Grudging Response. The one Buddhist leader who remained visible was Thich Tri Quang, who left the sudden quiet of Saigon and traveled north to his home territory, where riot and uneasiness still simmer. The five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corp are, in fact, still largely in open rebellion against the Saigon government and completely removed from its control. Pleading for moderation, Tri Quang tried to calm the northern cries for Ky's immediate ouster. Speaking in Hue, he said bluntly: "Your demands do not meet the general consensus, so you must curb them. That is the first...