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...cite but a few recent examples: On February 7 a Saigon newspaper, Dan Toc, reported that a groups of law students were arrested during a student electing at the Saigon University Faculty of Law because the government suspected them of being acquaintances of a certain Mr. Nguyen dang Trung. Tien Tuyen, the South Vietnamese Army newspaper reported on August 4 of last year that this Mr. Nguyen dang Trung, who was president of the Saigon Student Union, was sentenced in absentia to ten years of hard labor because the Saigon Student Union had published a newspaper that favored peace...
Female Conscripts. On the other side, the Viet Cong has taken full advantage of the martial tradition of Vietnamese women, a tradition that goes back to the two Trung sisters' fight to repel Chinese invaders in A.D. 39. Running short of male conscripts, the Communists have lately recruited all-female combat units. Women now make up an estimated one-third to one-half of V.C. main-force troops...
...lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they got lost en route. Some 5,000 were killed, and another defector, North Vietnamese Regimental Commander Lieut. Colonel Truong Trung Doan, surrendered because he had been ordered to make suicidal attacks. Militarily, Tet II was disastrously expensive for the enemy. But it did inflict severe new wounds on Saigon and its people. Moreover, Hanoi got its headlines, its pictures of whole blocks on fire and of the suffering of the capital...
...Saigon; then he followed the uprooted villagers to a bleak camp behind barbed wire. He paints a picture of unremitting misery inspired by wanton cruelty-but he elects to omit details that would have colored it differently. For example, he has admitted to knowing that Propagandist Le Khanh Trung, one of the highest-ranking Viet Cong ever to fall into American hands, was found in Ben Sue; but he does not deem it worth mentioning in his book. Nor does he tell how Ben Sue's farmers were given new land and homes elsewhere, nor that the village...
...second Marine company was sent west to outflank Trung An, and soon was pinned down itself in the village of An Hoa. The fire was so heavy that rescue and supply choppers were driven off, and soon the Marines were without food or water, sucking bamboo for moisture. A third company finally broke through and managed to pull its casualties back into a nearby church. All that day mortars crashed around it, but none hit the roof. Even so, it was more than 40 hours before enough helicopters could get in to evacuate all the wounded. The next morning...