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...Quang Tri city, the only provincial capital in South Viet Nam to fall to the North Vietnamese, has stood as a humiliating symbol of defeat to Saigon since it was captured last May. On June 19, President Nguyen Van Thieu promised that Saigon's troops would devote the next three months to "kicking the Communists out of South Viet Nam forever." Ten days later, Saigon launched a 20,000-man counteroffensive. Its main object: Quang Tri city...
...North Vietnamese have not captured Hue or any other major city except Quang Tri, which they have successfully defended for two months with a constant artillery barrage against some of Saigon's best troops. Instead, they have been fanning out over the countryside and expanding their area of operation. The North Vietnamese have been relying primarily on the use of small units, though their soldiers are frequently supported by tanks and long-range 130-mm. guns. In many sections of the Mekong Delta, as a result of steadily mounting pressure from the small units of Communist troops, security...
Five months after they managed-with U.S. airpower-to stall the Communists' Easter offensive, they have not yet mounted a successful counteroffensive or recaptured Quang Tri city or any other significant part of the northern province that fell in April and May. They have not reopened Highway 13 between Saigon and An Loc, and the task was finally abandoned altogether last week as the two divisions assigned to it were regrouped in an effort to head off Communist units that are believed to be moving toward Saigon. The North Vietnamese are still staging ambushes on the road between Kontum...
This is the Viet Nam book for people who do not want to read about Viet Nam-the lip-service hawks and doves who don't know Quang Tri from An Giang and don't care how the war ends as long as it is soon. Fire in the Lake is about the nature of the Vietnamese character and its encounter with the West. In one form or other, scholars, journalists and Government officials have said most of what Frances FitzGerald has to say. But she may succeed better than they simply because she delves into culture, history...
Thieu-Teared. One of the latest approaches is a U.S. proposal for a "two-tier" government for South Viet Nam. One Saigon government would control the non-Communist portion of the South and another would run the Communist-held parts-perhaps including all or most of Quang Tri and Binh Dinh provinces and a slice of Military Region II along the Laotian border...