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According to South Vietnamese chief spokesman Col. Tran Van An, government forces accomplished 80 to 90 percent of their objectives. South Vietnamese and American officials have said their objectives were to disrupt North Vietnamese traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail and destroy NLF supply dumps...
...Saigon, South Vietnamese command spokesman Lt. Col. Tran An announced that "some South Vietnamese units which were heavily engaged by the enemy have been pulled back to South Vietnam. They have not been replaced. Just over a regiment was withdrawn...
Although fighting was considered "light" in comparison with last week's heavy battling, the South Vietnamese have abandoned another position along the trail, According to Lt. Col. Tran Van An, however, "In Laos there is no fixed position for South Vietnamese troops. The offensive is with us, so we move around...
...January, soon after Laird departed. General Cao Van Vien, chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint Chiefs of Staff, told his subordinates that there would be no more talking to the press ?particularly about operations in Military Region I. Soon after, Abrams met Vien and Major General Tran Van Minh, the South Vietnamese air force chief, to discuss strategy. The three met twice more in the next two days...
December 1970: The Saigon news paper Trang Den says Martine and her mother are impostors, and the real Martine is found hauling 110-lb. cement bags in a Saigon factory. A Paris paper quotes Tran Van Lam, Saigon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as saying: "We haven't dared tell him yet, but there are at least 17 other candidates for the role of Martine Bokassa...