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...escape route to Pleiku from Kontum was opened to civilian traffic yesterday for the first time in ten days. It had been blocked by a North Vietnamese regiment...
...town of Hoai An and the An Lao valley. In the Central Highlands, the equivalent of three North Vietnamese divisions harassed South Vietnamese forces and laid siege to seven fire bases west of the provincial capital of Kontum. Other North Vietnamese cut the main supply route, Highway 19, between Pleiku and the coastal town of Qui Nhon, and inflicted heavy losses on a South Korean division that tried to reopen the road. But the North Vietnamese were also suffering heavily in this section from American bombings; B-52 raids inflicted enormous casualties on the NVA 28th regiment...
...population was estimated at 1,400,000. Today it is at least twice that, and the population of the Saigon metropolitan area is probably about 4,000,000 more than 20 per cent of the entire country. The increases in population of cities like Danang, Nha Trang, Qui Nhon, Pleiku, Kontum and Ban Me Thuot have been even more spectacular. Smaller cities and towns have also had extraordinary growth rates, with many provincial capitals doubling or tripling their population in two or three years. The principal reason for this massive influx of population into the urban areas is, of course...
...this was an objective of the Tet offensive. Viet Cong units moving in from the countryside appealed for a "general uprising" of the urban populace and brought with them the political cadres to set up block committees and a political structure in urban areas. In several cities such as Pleiku and Nisa Trang the Viet Cong infrastructure within the city surfaced and was substantially destroyed...
...through all the motions of campaigning last week, despite the fact that his name will be the only one on the ballot when South Viet Nam's voters go to the polls on Sunday. He sipped rice wine with Montagnard tribesmen in the Central Highlands, popped up in Pleiku for a "nonpolitical" medal-pinning ceremony, and went on radio to demand of the voters: "I want to know your clear-cut attitude; either you have confidence...