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...South Vietnamese novelist and politician named Nguyen Tuong Tam sent his sons out to buy a bottle of whisky one night last week. For a while he sat drinking with them at his home in Saigon. "My sons, I feel very happy tonight," he said. "I am going to die very soon." Suddenly he keeled over, was rushed to a hospital where he died next morning. In his glass was found a lethal dose of cyanide...
...north from Saigon toward forested Binh Duong province, largely controlled by the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, gunners in the escorting H21 helicopters stood at open ports, scanning the terrain below over the barrels of .30-caliber machine guns. McNamara landed inside the defenses of a "strategic hamlet" called Ben Tuong, the pilot project of the U.S.-backed Operation Sunrise that was set up two months ago to isolate the population and to deny the Communists shelter and supplies...
...gone into hiding or were serving with the Viet Cong. Said a Vietnamese officer: "We hope they'll rejoin their families when they see that life in the strategic village is good.'' TIME Correspondent Jerry Rose asked a peasant volunteer if he preferred Ben Tuong to his former hamlet. He answered: "I had a nice home with a garden before." Why had he come here? "We were told to come by the chief of the province." Why had he been moved? "I don't know." Had the Viet Cong harmed him? "No, no. I saw them...
...Tuong is unusual in that it is the first strategic village to be built in the heart of Communist-controlled territory...
...promised benefits, and if the standard of living is obviously higher, in all probability the peasant militiamen will fight to defend what they have. The Viet Cong last week gave clear indication of its own uneasiness at this new development by launching a night attack on Ben Tuong and wounding two soldiers before being driven back into the forest...