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...because he is "honest"--which from the way Thai stressed the word suggested that Ky is an exception. Yet And Thai hedges all his bets by expressing great admiration for the Catholic power behind Ky like Chief of State Thieu as well as Thieu's Buddhist arch-rival Tri Quang...
...enough, the most spectacular one last week belonged to the marines, who celebrated the anniversary of their arrival by virtually destroying the North Vietnamese 36th Regiment. The marines had been hunting the 36th for nearly three months when the Red command post was finally pinpointed between Chu Lai and Quang Ngai. Four battalions of marines and four of Vietnamese government troops closed with the 36th in Operation Utah, a three-day battle that gave the marines their toughest fighting in a year of war. The 36th was well disciplined and well armed with the new Chinese Communist 7.62-caliber family...
Nestled among emerald rice fields and sheltered by the Marine-garrisoned Danang hills, Ap Quang Nam was a showcase village. Passing Marine patrols and their frequent guests were greeted by smiling "hello-okays" from the hamlet's neatly dressed children. Ap Quang Nam's market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...
...Quang Nam's mayor was something special too. Slight, gaunt of face behind a thick mustache, Ngo Tuong, 49, was a Popular Forces soldier who had come back home to serve as mayor only last month. Tuong liked to wear a black beret and a camouflage suit in making the rounds of his constituency, was both efficient and remarkably honest. Though he carried a pistol, he disdained a regular Marine guard detail, rightly judging that it would not sit well with his villagers. Anyway, there seemed little danger. Ap Quang Nam had been so thoroughly pacified after the marines...
Another is Robert Resseguie, 25, a native of Madison, N.J., and a former Peace Corps worker in Thailand. He is now an assistant AID representative in Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. After the U.S. Marines had cleared an area of Viet Cong in last summer's Operation Starlight, Resseguie led nearly 20,000 refugees back to their deserted homes, helped provide them with food and building material. Unfortunately, as soon as Starlight winked out, the V.C. winked back inan evidence of ineffective follow-through that has plagued pacification efforts all along...