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...Binh Thuan province, killed an old man and raped two women. A Catholic priest and four civilians were kidnaped from a church, and all civilians were forced to leave the area. In Thua Thien province, the Viet Cong stopped some buses, abducted a nurse and two girls. In Pleiku province they fired on a bus, killed the driver and wounded ten passengers...
Digging In. Meanwhile the South Vietnamese were doing some new and welcome convoying of their own last week. Route 19, connecting the port of Quinhon with inland Pleiku, had been closed for a month because of the danger of ambush along its winding 100-mile course through the Viet Conginfested countryside. But with troops, armored cars and overflying helicopters as escorts, a 168-vehicle convoy punched through to Pleiku with 300 tons of much-needed supplies. Two days later, a 77-truck convoy repeated the trip...
...Cong last week threatened to cut South Viet Nam in half (see map). Operating in battalion-strength units, the Communists hacked away at two important highways: Route 1, the embattled north-south road that the French called La Rue sans Joie (Street Without Joy), and Route 19, which links Pleiku in the central plateau with the seaport staging base of Quinhon. Controlling all of Route 19 from Pleiku to within 20 miles of Quinhon, the Viet Cong pinned down a company of South Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Special Forces advisers at Mangyang Pass. The Rangers were rescued by helicopter only...
...White Paper convincingly demonstrates the tight control exercised by Hanoi over the war in South Viet Nam. It does not trace specific attacks like those at Pleiku and Quinhon directly back to Hanoi, but there is little doubt that Ho Chi Minh and his North Vietnamese aides approved them. As the report summarizes: "The government in Saigon and the Government of the United States both hoped that the danger could be met within South Viet Nam itself. The leaders in Hanoi chose to respond with greater violence. Clearly the restraint of the past was not providing adequately for the defense...
...Chapin Jr.'s map of escalation in Viet Nam explains many things not made clear from news reports-especially how Viet Cong troops were in a position to attack our base at Pleiku...