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...those who died en route. Six children and two elderly men were taken dead from one barge after it landed in Nha Trang. Two colonels aboard the boat were subjected to cruel torture by renegade soldiers. One, a former province chief now on a Cabinet member's staff in Saigon, was robbed and forced to kneel and pray for his life. Another was robbed and stripped to his underwear...
...rampage when their evacuation ships arrived from Danang. They took over cars and Jeeps at gunpoint, robbing fellow refugees at random. Soldiers even fired on American helicopters and chartered aircraft seeking to land in Cam Ranh. The situation was so bad that field commanders in the military region around Saigon were ordered to execute rioting troops on the spot; one commander in Binh Tuy province east of Saigon ordered some troops shot for indiscipline...
...North Vietnamese divisions. The price had been high: nearly two-thirds of its men had been killed or injured. Early in the week the outgunned and outnumbered division gave way, leaving open the route to Qui Nhon, third largest city in South Viet Nam (pop. 230,000) after Saigon and Danang. If Qui Nhon went, so would Nha Trang, 100 miles to the south...
Another commonly mentioned possibility to succeed Thieu is a military directorate: an army group consisting of the most influential military figures in the country, including "Big" Minh. The military directorate might consolidate a defense but, given the long-term military disadvantage of the Saigon side, its aim would of necessity be a negotiated settlement with the Communists...
...negotiations; clearly, too, their long-range objective is the establishment of a Communist government in South Viet Nam. But as many Vietnamese politicians and foreign observers believe, they are unlikely to press for their maximum objective even if they score a complete military victory. The areas that remain under Saigon's control are traditionally the most strongly anti-Communist regions of Viet Nam. Hanoi and the P.R.G. will probably not risk pressing immediately for a system of government that would outrage hundreds of thousands of people. The Communists in fact might legitimately fear a reversal of the past 20 years...