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...successful campaign that could change the military situation. Thus last month he ordered his generals to go on the offensive. The first response came in Military Region I, where his best troops are concentrated. Moreover, these forces are commanded by South Viet Nam's best general, Lieut. General Ngo Quang Truong, who took over the region in May after the defeat at Quang...
...Kontum in the Central Highlands, the untested ARVN 23rd Division routed the 1,000 to 2,000 North Vietnamese troops that tried to infiltrate the town. At Hué, General Ngo Quang Truong, the new regional commander, sent elements of the 1st ARVN Division and the South Vietnamese marines on spoiling actions against enemy units southwest and north of the city. To the north, a force of 2,000 marines were pushing into Communist-controlled Quang Tri province, though they were encountering heavy opposition twelve miles south of Quang Tri city...
...Ngo Dish Long, publisher of a newspaper concerned with political developments in South Vietnam, will speak at Fox Memorial Library, on Mass Ave in Arlington. 8, May 18. Free...
...were South Viet Nam's best units. They included the 1st Division, a marine division and infantry units hastily brought up from the Mekong Delta and nearby Quang Ngai province. Thieu's biggest asset may be his new commander in the north, Lieut. General Ngo Quang Truong. Truong is regarded by Americans as ARVN's most effective field commander, and his first action was decisive enough. To stop the hemorrhage of ARVN troops through Hué, he ordered deserters shot on sight...
...been advanced as much by luck as by leadership. In his early years of political activism, he managed, like the young Nikita Khrushchev, to be absent during periods of party turmoil. Between 1954 and 1956, he began to organize political subversion against the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Le Duan was thus preoccupied with other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis led to the fall of the party's secretary...