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Though as many as eight provinces in the Mekong Delta (of a total of 44 provinces in South Viet Nam) had still not surrendered and there was scattered resistance in Cholon, the predominantly Chinese quarter of Saigon, the P.R.G. announced that its conquest was now complete...
...Viet Nam could only feel relief that the war was over. For the first time since French boats steamed into Danang in 1858, the nationalistic and proud Vietnamese, North and South, creators of splendid past civilizations, were rid of any foreign presence. For the first time since the Japanese conquest of 34 years ago, there was peace...
...Saigon, awaiting a signal to attack. Communist shelling of the city and of nearby Tan Son Nhut airbase could begin at any time. U.S. Army Chief of Staff Frederick Weyand returned from South Viet Nam to Washington two weeks ago convinced that "the North Vietnamese seek a total military conquest of South Viet Nam." With so many options available to them, they might decide instead to pursue a strategy of slow strangulation, gradually cutting Saigon off from the coast, from the Delta and finally from the air. The view of U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger is that the Communists will...
Even discounting the bias of the Hanoi press, Western observers were reasonably satisfied that the Communist conquest of almost three-quarters of South Viet Nam was proceeding so far without widespread bloodbaths or reprisals. Some refugees reported public stonings as well as scattered executions. In Danang, a policeman was beheaded in the marketplace soon after the Communist forces arrived, and the Viet Cong tied several captured ARVN soldiers together and blew them up with grenades. In Hué, after a drumhead court-martial, five policemen were shot. None of the refugees, however, reported mass executions similar to those during...
...ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...