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...vengeance to frighten voters away from the polls. In one day, in a coordinated series of attacks the length of the narrow nation, guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket and mortar assault against Can Tho, largest city in the Delta, killing 46 and wounding 268, many of them...
Still, many Negro soldiers prefer to pull their passes in Saigon's self-segregated Soulsville, a warren of bars and brothels along Khanh Hoi Street near...
...dying for Communism. Last week Saigon announced that a record 5,557 Viet Cong defected to the Allied side during the month of March, nearly double February's previous record monthly high of 2,917 surrendered enemies. That brought the totals for the government's Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program for the first quarter of the year to 10,746, already more than half of last year's full count of 20,242 and nearly equal to the 11,124 who defected in all of 1965. The running start puts Saigon's Chieu Hoi goal...
...healthier for all concerned are the psychological-warfare techniques aimed at luring Communist defectors back to Saigon's side (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week the massive "psywar" campaign launched during the four-day Tet truce began to pay off. An estimated 1,000 Viet Cong became Hoi Chanh (returnees) during the week after the holiday began, a record for any week in the war. "More importantly," says U.S. Psy-Warrior M. L. Osborne, "we're finally getting a few oldtimers-men in their 30s and 40s who were with the Viet Minh." In short, even...
...Saigon? For all the difference between these types, there are some constants: the Vietnamese seem to love their villages with an extraordinary passion. Again and again, they speak of the time when the trouble will end and they can go back to the elysium of such hamlets as Gia Hoi or Hoai Chau. So narrow and parochial is their vision that most do not know the name of their province chief or the mayor of the adjoining city. At their hesitant best, the peasants can identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know...