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...last week. South Viet Nam's army was steadily expanding toward a better equipped, better-trained force of 918,000. In the field, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops scored a series of notable victories against Communist units in the outskirts of Saigon and even more decisively in the A Shau Valley (see THE WORLD). While U.S. losses were running at the rate of some 30 dead per day, the Communists were losing about...
When and if the Communists do elect to come out fighting again, they will find the allies far better prepared for Round 2 than they were for Round 1. From the A Shau valley in the north to the environs of Saigon, allied units are aggressively trying to break up Communist formations before they can be fully assembled for offensive use. The South Vietnamese army has invaded the A Shau valley, an almost untouchable redoubt of Communist troops since they overran a U.S. Special Forces base there in 1966. Other allied units are positioned for "mobile defense" to come...
...places remain in South Viet Nam where Communist forces enjoy anything like a sanctuary and can operate with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
...valley of A Shau lies south of Khe Sanh on the Laos border, 30 miles southwest of Hue-only a night's march beyond the protective jungle for an enemy force aiming to launch a surprise attack on the ancient capital of Viet Nam. After seizing the valley in March 1966, the North Vietnamese brought in artillery, antiaircraft guns and tons of supplies, built bunkers and fortifications all the way in from the Laotian border...
...least some of the North Vietnamese troops that abandoned the siege of Khe Sanh are believed to have filtered down into A Shau, where they have increased the threat to Hue's security. Though the valley has been repeatedly bombed, the U.S. last week turned loose on A Shau the giant B-52s that had helped lift the siege of Khe Sanh. In ten waves averaging six planes each, the eight-engine jets hit the valley with 500 tons of explosives during a 24-hour period and kept coming back throughout the week. They blasted truck parking lots, weapons...