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...lives there, and it grows 80% of the country's rice. As the conventional war to the north remained stalemated last week, attention shifted to the south, where Communist guerrillas are still waging what TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch calls "a Graham Greene kind of war, of weak outposts overrun at night, of ambushes and infiltration, of contested villages and safe roads suddenly cut." Rauch and TIME Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken toured the Delta last week. Their report...
...Communist offensive has reduced the government-controlled portion of the region from 90% to about 75%. Out of 5,000 government outposts, 100 have been overrun by the enemy and another 250 have been "consolidated," meaning abandoned. The abandonment of many of these outposts makes sense militarily, but it has drastically affected the pacification program as well as the population's morale...
...some overrun hamlets, the Communists are imposing a tax of two-thirds on this year's rice crop-up from. 50% a year ago, a trend that apparently indicates growing confidence. "They are trying to reoccupy villages and hamlets where they used to work," says Colonel Duong Hieu Nghia, the Vinh Long province chief. "They are preparing for a ceasefire. They want to be in place if it comes, and ready if it does...
That Guy. She descended to the subway-clean and imposing but overrun with sweating, squabbling newsmen on top of the normal Russian crowds. Jostled as she was, she never lost her cool and she even found something to admire: "I'm impressed with the fact that there are no advertisements like in New York." To be sure, there were posters outside extolling a noncommercial institution, the Communist Party. Then from the depths to the heights: the 32nd floor of the city's tallest building, Moscow University. The First Lady managed to descry a church in the distance...
THERE were beaucoup VC," said Sergeant Lam Son, a twelve-year veteran of the ARVN 9th Regiment, who earlier had been fortunate enough to escape from Loc Ninh, the town that was overrun by the North Vietnamese in their drive on An Loc. "They [the North Vietnamese] had about 30 tanks and many of us were killed. We kill many VC, but they too strong." When I met the sergeant, he was preparing to move north again toward the besieged city of An Loc. His unit was in the village of Lai Khe, 30 miles south of An Loc, which...