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...Marine operation of:the war, the allies purposefully set out to be ambushed-and thereby lure the Communist ambushers into a giant ambush of allied design. The prey: some 3,700 veteran Viet Cong troops who have been roaming at will up and down the province of Quang Tin between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops, is a paddy-checkered producer of rice used to feed enemy troops. It is harvest time. And Viet Cong control of the region...
...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...
...area. Rose, the father of two small daughters who live with their mother in Hong Kong, last month accompanied a South Viet Nam Cabinet Minister on a trip up the country's coastline from Saigon. The twin-engined C-47 had just taken off from the airstrip at Quang Ngai, 300 miles north of Saigon, when it crashed after engine failure. Forty-one persons aboard died, including the Cabinet Minister and Jerry Rose...
...themselves the Hué intellectuals are a small voice in Viet Nam, but 14 labor leaders sat in on their seminars, and the tone of their manifesto was strangely reminiscent of Thich Tri Quang, leader of Viet Nam's militant Buddhist mobs, who by coincidence was in Hué for a rally of his own. Taking no chances, Ky softened the draft. The army would exempt intellectuals holding "important" positions, announced Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and would give many others only a quick training course and return them to their desks-in uniform...
...QUANG GIAI...