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...most areas of the south not 1% of the population really understands Communism," says a U.S. social worker from an overrun province; "but rightly or wrongly, there is that fear of what Communists will do to them. Communism is still a physical threat." Twenty-one years of government propaganda no doubt helped instill that fear; but so did 21 years of exposure to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese tactics...
...among the 900,000 that chose to migrate to the South in 1954. Others dispute this judgment, pointing out that the Catholic hierarchy in South Viet Nam does not appear to be overly afraid of Communist vengeance. In the current turmoil, not a single Catholic bishop in the areas overrun by the Communists is known to have left his post...
...under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real shocker was the swiftness of the fall of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city and the onetime center of U.S. Marine operations in Viet Nam. The weekend announcement by Saigon officials that the city had been overrun by the Communists marked the South's greatest single defeat of the war. The Thieu government had now abandoned or been forced from more than half of the country's territory...
Elsewhere in Cambodia, the story is just as grim. Several towns on the Mekong River are still under pressure, while even Battambang city, 160 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh in the heart of what was once Cambodia's rice granary, might soon fall. Each night the Communists overrun another tiny outpost protecting the city. An inspection of Battambang's defenses, says a recent visitor, turned up "empty holes and no soldiers to fill them...
This was Lowell Lee overrun by a backlash mob: Emerson Hall seized and reversed. Professors who think they are boring get a rush from mentioning something about New Haven and feeling the cool Harvard his from the audience. But here it was no giggling serpent noise but a monstrous barrage of "Fuck You!" One announcer never got near the mike without a voice yelling "Shut up you fuckin' preppie!" The announcer went to public school and the shouting beero was a preppie...