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...effort to dramatize a "North Vietnamese offensive," Saigon has feigned "tactical withdrawals" from its own territory. After Congress voted to reduce the military aid request, a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee report, released on August 5, acknowledged that the U.S. Embassy assisted Saigon in falsifying the maneuvers around Tong Le Chan and Ben Cat in order to sabotage the talks between Saigon and the PRG in Paris...
...Kieu, by the 19th century writer Nguyen Du, recounts the plight of a girl forced to leave her home to become a prostitute in order to secure the money needed to pay for the release of her parents who had been unjustly harassed by the Imperial authorities. Huynh Sanh Tong's translation of The Tale of Kieu (Vintage paperback, $1.95) offers the American reader a unique perspective of Vietnamese life...
...South Vietnamese government outpost near the Cambodian border, Tong Le Chan, some 400 ARVN troops were surrounded by an entire Communist regiment, and large-scale fighting there seemed to be imminent. Some intelligence experts predict a general surge of Communist military activity later this month...
...besieged by North Vietnamese regiments. But the Polish and Hungarian members of the commission refused to investigate, arguing that they might get hurt in the battle. The Saigon government was obliged to send a 1,000-man task force to relieve the troops at Rach Bap. The second base, Tong Le Chan, remained surrounded...
...Chinatown detail's first action -against the secret protection societies whose Mafia-like gang wars had terrorized Chinatown-was in the style of the times. The cops descended on tong headquarters with axes and smashed everything in sight. The subsidence of the tong wars was due less to the squad's enforcement than to battle attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations...