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...Hanoi and the Viet Cong, the war has always been a political struggle, while Americans have viewed it mainly as a military confrontation. Nixon is proposing a freeze of the military conflict where it stands in return for U.S. agreement to remove all forces within as little as twelve months' time. What is more, the Nixon proposals are not being presented to Hanoi and the Viet Cong on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Rather, they are designed to get the Communists talking more seriously and fighting with less enthusiasm. Even an imperfect cease-fire would reduce casualties...
This, our tribe's first action, is part of a national fall offensive by tribes of kids all over to attack the enemy every-where he shows his ugly face. This coincides with offensives being waged by the Viet Cong in Southeast Asia and by our brothers in the prisons of New York City...
...manning 300 monitoring posts, would supervise the ceasefire. As Vance sees it, there are a number of built-in advantages to his proposal. For one thing, it would leave each side in control of what it now has. Such control might lead to elections in which neither the Viet Cong nor the government of Nguyen Van Thieu would risk a total loss of power. Vance's expectation is that the Communists would win elections where they now have military and administrative control and that Saigon would control the cities and the central government...
Kill Count. Calley was still eager when he took his platoon into the countryside south of Danang and set up an ambush for Viet Cong troops. "I knew the V.C. were somewhere nearby because-well, I was in South Viet Nam. Our captain, Captain Medina, wouldn't send me somewhere if I couldn't get a big kill count, right?" For hours nothing happened. Calley's bravado turned to fear when he realized that his inexperienced soldiers had made too much noise to surprise any approaching enemy. "The V.C. must know I'm here. They must...
...more nights of ambush without combat followed, Calley became depressed. "What am I pulling ambushes for? What am I running patrols for? Or searching for? We want to fight." Instead of seeing Viet Cong, his men had to deal mainly with prostitutes seeking business, and swarms of kids selling Cokes and offering to do the G.I.s' laundry. Calley tells of making shy love to a young madam and then trying to dis cuss political philosophy with her: "Susie had never heard of Communism or democracy." If he explained the difference, Calley thought, and she said that she preferred Communism...