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...aggression also reflects Hanoi's increasing control over the whole war in the South. With recruitment of fresh Viet Cong growing increasingly difficult, more and more North Vietnamese are infiltrating the South in order to fill the ranks. Westmoreland estimates that the average Viet Cong main-force unit is now 10% North Vietnamese. NVA units have lately been found operating as far down the command ladder as squad-size in hamlets. And two weeks ago in the Delta, hitherto the exclusive preserve of indigenous Viet Cong, the first North Vietnamese soldier was captured...
Drifting down the rivers from the hills come logs rigged with paper sails that bear Viet Cong propaganda messages to the U.S. Marines. More leaflets are strewn among the American dead on battlefields. All plug the same hard-sell theme: refuse to fight, desert to the Viet Cong. But lately, the Viet Cong are narrowing their sights. In an attempt to ride the upswing of racial disorder in the U.S., they are aiming their psychological offensive at the Negro fighting man. "Black G.I. in the U.S. Army!" exhorts one leaflet. "Twenty million of your fellow countrymen in the U.S.A...
...that he recorded in North Viet Nam. "To hell with the white man," Carmichael tells the Negro. "It's his war. Let him fight it. The Viet Nam war is for the birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...
...Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have had ample opportunity to get acquainted with the Seals since they arrived in Viet Nam 21 months ago. In some 600 missions, nearly all of them furtive forays into Communist-held areas, they have laid waste Communist installations (including 70 rivercraft, more than 200 bridges, factories and other structures, and at least 200 fortified positions), thrown the Communists off balance and killed more than 175 Communist soldiers and captured 60 while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams...
...Seals' primary missions are reconnaissance and demolition, and their principal weapons stealth, surprise-and patience. Last week TIME's Glenn Troelstrup became the first newsman in Viet Nam permitted to accompany a Seal team on a mission. Dropped by Navy river patrol boats deep into Viet Cong country southeast of Saigon in the swampy mangrove sector of Rung Sat, the Seals set up an ambush beside a small stream. There, for 14 long hours, they froze in position, hip-deep in mud, clad in camouflage suits and bush hats, their faces blackened. Their only communication was by tugs...