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...Galanti, who came from a career Army family and has served since last November as the chairman of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, has been getting ready for this week for a long time. When Paul was shot down over Vinh on June 17, 1966, he had been married three years. The Galantis had no children...
...While maintaining its halt to air and naval attacks above the 20th parallel, American bombers are hitting the supply routes below the 20th at a near-record pace. Oct. 31, the Hanoi had hoped the agreement would be signed, 13 B-52 missions bombed the coastal routes south of Vinh...
Western journalists and diplomats who have recently visited North Viet Nam all report that the country is a land of contrasts. While in some tiny rural communities life proceeds with undisturbed serenity, in cities like Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa and Vinh, where destruction is almost total, traditional patterns of living have been completely disrupted. Foreign observers agree, however, that the U.S. raids have not crushed the morale of the North Vietnamese or weakened their determination to carry on at all costs. Says Jean Sainteny, a former diplomat who established the French mission in Hanoi in 1954 and has returned...
...Vinh Phung hamlet, 42 policemen were reportedly executed in a mass ceremony; another was beheaded, and his body was hung from a tree beside a police station. A hamlet chief was disemboweled in Kontum...
...hamlets, the Communists are imposing a tax of two-thirds on this year's rice crop-up from. 50% a year ago, a trend that apparently indicates growing confidence. "They are trying to reoccupy villages and hamlets where they used to work," says Colonel Duong Hieu Nghia, the Vinh Long province chief. "They are preparing for a ceasefire. They want to be in place if it comes, and ready if it does...