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...dead of night last week, 60 Laotians stealthily cast off from the Thailand shore of the Mekong River in motor-powered pirogues. They were led by General Thao Ma, 42, onetime commander of the Royal Lao Air Force, who has lived in Thai exile since his 1966 abortive attempt to overthrow the Laotian government. After disembarking at the outskirts of Vientiane, the rebels rendezvoused with about 60 more sympathizers. A coup against Laos' neutralist leader, Prince Souvanna Phouma, had begun...
...some G.I.s actually fighting with the Viet Cong? In Paris last week, V.C. Spokesman Duong Dinh Thao called a press conference to announce that "there are a number of American soldiers fighting in the ranks of the liberation army." He then went on to launch what sounded very much like an UNCLE HO WANTS YOU campaign. U.S. defections, Thao proclaimed, would be encouraged by a just-issued V.C. "order of the day." The five-point order instructed the Viet Cong not to attack G.I. units that refrained from hostile action. G.I.s desiring to slip over to the other side would...
...Viet Nam's Xuan Thuy denounced them as "an electoral gift certificate" aimed solely at improving Republican chances in the November elections. Alluding to Bruce's description of the Communists' Sept. 17 points as "new wine in old bottles," the Viet Cong's Duong Dinh Thao called Nixon's speech "a bottle marked 'Peace' but which contained no wine at all-only gunpowder, poisonous chemicals and many words in the Goebbels style...
...View from the Villages Binh Thoi, not far from Saigon, was once a prosperous farm village with red-tiled roofs, gas lamps and fertile coconut and orange groves that stretched as far as the eye could see. U.S. troops and Viet Cong guerrillas left it a wasteland. Chu Thao, a teacher from nearby Bien Hoa, describes what happened: "Not a blade of grass survived. The surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood...
...tried a third time. Early one morning, as soon as Regional Force troops had cleared the mines and booby traps set by the Viet Cong the night before, the village elders made their way to the small plot where the earthworms were waging their struggle to survive. Writes Chu Thao...