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...Criminal Investigation Division, the Army is considering an accusation of murder against a general officer. The brigadier general, who is currently serving a tour of duty in the Pentagon, has been accused by helicopter pilots and some of those who flew with him of murdering perhaps six Vietnamese in Quang Ngai province late in 1968. The officer in question, a West Point graduate, was an infantry brigade commander at the time; he was supposedly scouting the area in his Huey command helicopter when he did the shooting, taking potshots at Vietnamese peasants on the ground below. He has admitted...
...place, others in the right place but on the wrong people. Bureaucratic demands for a show of allied progress on the basis of "hamlet-evaluation systems" have sometimes encouraged officials to evacuate villages unnecessarily. In early April, 650 people were removed from a Viet Cong-controlled valley south of Quang Ngai city. A U.S. senior adviser subsequently charged that the real motive behind the exercise was not a military need but a desire to eliminate the "V"-rated (Viet Cong-controlled) hamlets and thus improve the overall rating of Quang Ngai province...
...race. Later on, perhaps some time this summer, a third candidate is likely to emerge: popular but painfully hesitant Duong Van Minh. leader of the 1963 coup that toppled the Diem regime. Strong in Saigon, in Hue, in central Viet Nam and with the militant An Quang Buddhists. "Big Minh" has already staked out a position well to the left of Thieu; he has indicated that he would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving, Minh is expected to run much stronger than...
North Vietnamese gunners shelled Khe Sanh in South Vietnam's northwest corner for the fifth straight day, Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from Quang Tri. About 500 shells have been lobbed into the base this week...
Since the airfield came under regular shelling attacks, most of the helicopters.used to support the Laos operation have been flown to Dong Ha, Quang Tri, and other rear bases...