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...upping the ante. It is a desperate effort. But it might work. It could still bolster the doves within the Administration. It just might convince the President that Americans will stand behind him in efforts to negotiate or at least limit the conflict. The President--caught in a tightening vise between those who want more fighting and those who want less--wants...
Caught in a Vise. Souvanna Phouma did not have to fear the Communists in the elections: the Pathet Lao boycotted them. His strongest opposition came from the rightist south, where portly Prince Boun Oum-his predecessor as Premier until 1962-was attempting a comeback with the aid of southern army commanders and Deputy Premier Leuam Insisiengmay. Souvanna also faced trouble in the north, where Guerrilla Leader Vang Pao had picked his own candidates, afraid that the military rightists led by General Kouprasith Abhay, Souvanna's chief backer, would become too powerful and attempt to bring his anti-Communist...
Caught in a regional vise, Souvanna first attempted to create a National United Front Party embracing all ideological elements, but was blocked by Deputy Premier Leuam, who feared that the party would fall into leftist control. "There was no platform, no common ideology," said Leuam. "I could not possibly join it." Thwarted from both left and right, Souvanna was forced to allow more than 150 candidates for 59 National Assembly seats to run as independents-who might or might not back him if elected. He hedged the danger by weaving a complex web of alliances and patronage promises, then...
Closing the Vise. The H13 chopper was routinely inspecting the lacework of dikes and mangrove swamps controlled by the Viet Cong since the early 1960s, when red tracers lanced up and dropped the two-seater into a paddy like a stunned moth. Two larger Hueys, bristling with rockets and M-60 machine guns, came to the rescue almost at once. If the Viet Cong had lain low while the Hueys picked up the downed H13 crew, they might still have escaped the bother that was soon to follow. In stead the Reds shot down the Hueys too, and the gauntlet...
...North Vietnamese 610th Sao Vang (Yellow Star) Division. With the Sao Vang as quarry, Operation Washington Irving rapidly mounted in scale. A large force from South Korea's Capitol Division wheeled in from the south. A contingent of South Vietnamese troops rushed in from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored in from the north. With their back to the sea, where the rockets and guns of U.S. Navy vessels made escape impossible, the Reds could either fight and die, or surrender. A record number chose the lesser part of valor, producing the highest prisoner count...