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...change consists of a quickening of national pride, a new solidity of national spirit, a sense of autonomy and freedom. Ever since the Communist siege of Pleiku in February 1965 galvanized the U.S. into action in the air and an ensuing buildup on the ground, the nations of the crescent have stood up and gone their own way with a new assurance that Chinese Communism need not be the battering wave of the future. There is no longer much talk of the "domino theory," which held that the fall of Viet Nam would be followed in quick succession...
Knee-deep in mud, the correspondent pushed doggedly ahead into Viet Cong territory with a U.S. Marine reconnaissance patrol. Later he was up and at them with the Green Berets near Pleiku, then hopped aboard a helicopter to participate in a 1st Cavalry airborne assault landing. "He moves like a worm in hot ashes," said an admiring U.S. officer, but that came as no news to the folks at home. The newsman was eye-patched Moshe Dayan, Israel's former chief of staff come to a war as a correspondent for a Tel Aviv paper. And as one soldier...
Giap, for his part, was unconvinced that U.S. intervention would be able to slow his momentum. In October, he launched an assault on the Special Forces border camp of Plei Me, 30 miles south of Pleiku, intended as the opening of a concerted drive to cut Viet Nam in half from the Cambodian border to the South China Sea. His technique was a carbon copy of past successes at the camps of Due Co near Pleiku and Dong Xoai, northeast of Saigon, earlier in the year: to attack an isolated camp and then ambush the South Vietnamese force charging...
...leveled it in the biggest, most destructive single strike of the war. On the ground, 1st Cavalry troopers reported killing more than 450 Viet Cong in Operation Crazy Horse northwest of An Khe, and a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division counted 371 Communist dead after a battle near Pleiku during Operation Paul Revere. "If you look at this war's military aspect without regard to such political factors as instability in Saigon, or hesitancy in Washington," wrote Columnist Joseph Alsop last week, "you have to conclude that the situation is full of promise...
...monks, Boy Scouts and Communist agitators-surged through the streets of Saigon. In battles with police and Vietnamese troopers, they answered tear gas with stones, staves and homemade spears, occasionally even a hand grenade. In South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their ranks often swelled by uniformed Vietnamese servicemen. A month in the gathering, South Viet Nam's storm of political unrest had erupted in a hail of intermittent violence and near civil...