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...pilots, 15,000 other officers and men and 400 planes. In its latest upgrading, the V.N.A.F is turning in propeller-driven A-1 Skyraiders for twin-engine A-37 jet attack planes. The 524th, or Thien-Loi (Thunder) Squadron recently went operational in A-37s at Nha Trang airbase, and two more squadrons of the jets will be flying by year...
...Best Only. As his backing dwindled rapidly and his depression deepened, Ky slipped away to the seacoast city of Nha Trang, where he paced up and down the beaches, lost in thought. He returned to Saigon briefly last week, but only for a private goodbye to outgoing U.S. Commander William Westmoreland and to resign as head of the recently instituted Civil Defense Committee. "I'm going fishing," he snapped to a palace official, and with that he returned to Nha Trang and isolation...
...were certain that it would assure "genuine peace and freedom" for South Viet Nam. Those sentiments do not endear him to Ky and his followers, who are far more fretful than Thieu about the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. Ky, in fact, was off in Nha Trang when Thieu changed Premiers last week, a fact that led Saigon's hyperactive gossip mills to conclude that Ky might decide to plot a coup against Thieu in retaliation...
...moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have been caught, rice molders unharvested. In Soc Trang, the cost of food has risen 30%; in Vinh Long, the price of rice has soared tenfold...
Nonetheless, as enemy shells fell on Saigon and at least 25 other places as far south as Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta and as far north as Phu Bai on the coastal plains of I Corps, there was considerable concern in Saigon and Washington. Intelligence officers were all too aware that, despite the doubtless inflated allied claims of 33,000 Communists killed earlier, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap still has at his disposal in South Viet Nam about 90,000 or so fresh troops that were not committed in the first round...