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Every now and then, one in ten or or so of the injuries as we looked over the hospital's records, were recorded as coming from ground fire. Here it is impossible to tell whether the ground fire was Viet Cong or that of the ARVN or American troops...
...departure from South Vietnam was delayed ten days by the Viet Cong urban offensive...
...believes the Viet Cong offensive, and the unlimited character of our response to it, have limited the future options open to us in South Vietnam. He fears that we will face continued miltary setbacks until we either withdraw, or resort to nuclear weapons...
...defeat that the enemy had ever suffered. Ambassador Bunker got on to tell us that American forces and their gallant allies were having their greatest victory. They even had a brief dub-in from President Johnson in Washington telling us that this was a great defeat for the Viet Cong and a victory for America and South Vietnam. And that this was an act of last desperation on the part of the Viet Cong...
...effect denies prisoner-of-war status to spies. It allows soldiers captured out of uniform to qualify for P.W. privileges if they 1) carried arms "openly" or 2) fought "in accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas of the country peasantry or in ordinary street clothing, like Loan's victim, and wear red armbands or other identifying badges only in combat. And what, in Viet Nam, are the laws and customs...