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Already the Lam Son 719 bloodshed has reached a scale that Major General Frederick Weyand, the deputy U.S. commander in Saigon, describes as "worse than Tet." Even so, until last week the Laotian venture in some respects resembled what one Washington official describes as "an Alphonse-Gaston show. The South Vietnamese fought hard, but they also sat back and waited to see what the North Vietnamese would do. The North Vietnamese attacked outposts, but their main forces sat back and waited to see what the South Vietnamese would...
Square in the Middle. Primary target was a stretch of Route 4, a potholed two-lane highway over which moves most of the food that the Delta now sends to Saigon. Explained Lieut. General Frederick C. Weyand, the U.S. Area Commander: "For every day the road is closed, the price of rice in Saigon goes up 10 piasters [20]." In the past fortnight, the Viet Cong concentrated three hard-core battalions near Route 4 and mined the road eight times, bringing traffic to a virtual stop. The V.C. were obviously trying to push up food prices just as the presidential...
...half nelson at 7:42, 128--Cragin (A) decisioned Abboud, 10-4; 136-Smith (H) decisioned Fern, 6-3; 145-Sawyer (H) decisioned Myers, 5-4; 155-Lange (A) decisioned Connors, 7-4; 165-Scalzo (A) pinned Keith with a cradle at 2:14; 175--Clafin (H) decisioned Weyand, 6-5, unlimited--W. Davis (H) decisioned B. Davis...