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...game went on, the Viet Cong-just as they did in the confusion after Diem's fall-lost no time stepping up the war. Unleashing their biggest offensive since November, the Reds increased small-scale harassments and terrorism, launched a rapid-fire series of battalion-size attacks. In Vinh Long province, the Viet Cong murdered the mother of the army's intelligence chief for the southern Mekong Delta. In Saigon, a Communist-planted bomb exploded in the Playboy Bar, killing five Vietnamese and wounding 40 other patrons, including six Americans...
...weapons; in one sortie near the delta village of Apbac last January, they downed five of 14 helicopters, including one of the 24 fast, rocket-firing HU-1B ("Huey") helicopters that now escort most missions. Last week a second company of 24 Hueys arrived at a new base near Vinh Long. "Operations were down in the hundreds a year ago," says General Paul Harkins, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam. "Now they're in the thousands." But normal battlefield statistics are largely meaningless. The Viet Cong's casualty rate is rising, but the Reds have actually...
Clear & Hold. With the growth of the militiamen, the army is being released from static holding operations to make major offensive sweeps against the Viet Cong, sometimes clearing them from areas where no government forces have been in 15 years. In Kien Phong and Vinh Long provinces, where the Reds once dominated up to 65% of the population, swiftly mounted government raids against guerrilla training centers and supply depots have reduced the Communist-controlled populace to less than 30%. In the past year, the army's striking power has been massively enhanced by U.S. helicopters that can airlift Vietnamese...
...bulging with Russian armaments and swarming with Vietnamese. The Ilyu-shins, which are lined up 18 deep at Hanoi airport, drone in by the hour, bringing 45 tons of equipment a day. About once a week, a convoy of 50 Gorky trucks rolls in over primitive Route Seven from Vinh in North Viet Nam. The rebels have more than 60 Gorky trucks. 40 Soviet jeeps, about 25 command cars and six Russian armored cars. They have Kalashnikov submachine guns. Simonov carbines. Degtiarev light machine guns, ZPU antiaircraft machine guns, as well as Russian assault guns...
...most serious revolts, according to Nguyen, were in the predominately Catholic area around Quynh Luu, but other refugees had told him that there were similar uprisings in the suburbs of Hanoi itself, in Phat Diem, Thanh Hoa and Vinh. In many cases, solidly Buddhist peasants were prevented from joining their Catholic co-rebels only by hastily deployed units of the Viet Minh army...