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...early last week there were at least 130,000 Communist troops surrounding Saigon, squared off against just 60,000 ARVN troops. And while South Vietnamese forces were steadily depleted through desertions and encounters with the enemy, the North Vietnamese forces kept growing. General Nguyen Van Toan, commander of the military region around the capital, privately conceded that the battle had been lost; so did most of ARVN's top leadership. "Their morale and their leadership are just flowing away," said a senior military observer who only a week ago was still hopeful that Saigon could yet pull off "a small...
...strange sort of camaraderie prevails at Ta Lung. "In the mornings," says Colonel Toan, "the enemy likes to taunt us. 'Time to get up!' the Communist political officer shouts...
Colonel Vo Toan, the district commander, described what he calls the "spider-web" tactics employed at Ta Lung: "We make sure the enemy doesn't venture too far. He is the butterfly and we are the spider. If he enters our web, we close in behind...
...party newspaper denounced the activities of Mrs. Toan and Mrs. Hoa. a pair of resourceful peddlers who operate a portable Woolworth's on one of Hanoi's main streets. One morning, a Red reporter had visited all the state trade stores with out finding a single fountain pen. He then watched while Mrs. Toan and Mrs. Hoa sold dozens of fountain pens in less than an hour, in addition to razor blades, moth balls, nylon stockings, shoelaces, buttons and aspirin tablets-all in short supply at the state stores...