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...July, Owen returned to Viet Nam. As an adviser to that nation's Revolutionary Development Program, he was assigned to work with villagers in Viet Cong-infested Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. Fortnight ago, Owen and three other Americans volunteered to drive from Quang Ngai City four miles to a coastal hamlet to warn U.S. and Vietnamese co-workers that Viet Cong had attacked the city and were believed still to be lurking in the area. On the way back, the Jeep was ambushed. Taking cover in a cornfield, Owen and his companions were bombarded...
...Vote for Ky. A surprising number of Vietnamese seemed to do just that -think for themselves. And those who did vote to order were not necessarily backers of the government ticket. In the ancient imperial capital of Hué, for example, Thich Tri Quang, the militant Buddhist monk, sent out word to vote for Suu. As a result, Suu not only carried Hué but nearby Danang and Thua Thien province as well. Huong, as expected, carried his old mayoralty of Saigon. Peace Candidate Dzu won five provinces, all longtime, hard-core bases for Viet Cong activity; he was runner...
Next day the Viet Cong dynamited nine bridges in a calculated effort to make it difficult for voters to reach polling places. The day after, two Communist platoons overran the provincial capital of Quang Ngai, shelling...
...credibility gap is closed by violence. Last week a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into the living room of a village chief on Danang Bay. They killed a member of a government propaganda team distributing leaflets in Quang Nam province. They kidnaped two elders from a hamlet less than a mile from Hue. And they shot a villager in a hamlet in Thua Thien as a lesson to all the villagers not to vote in South Viet Nam's presidential elections. It was all in a week's work of governing, Viet Cong-style...
Aware that North Vietnamese regulars are concentrating troops in the A Shau valley 60 miles west of Danang, the U.S. sent B-52s to bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...