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...anyway. U.S. policymakers, however, want to separate Cambodia from Viet Nam, where, the Administration feels, greater stakes are involved. It thus wants to convince the legislators that the extra $300 million of military aid to comparatively strong and well-equipped South Viet Nam would be of real help to Saigon in resisting its enemies...
...salesman, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Roseburg, Ore., and was briefly married in 1967. After quitting Portland State University to take pictures for the Oregon Journal, he went on, at the age of 20, to United Press International. UPI sent him to Saigon in 1971, and the next year, his photos showing the desolation of war won him a Pulitzer Prize...
Random Shelling. Bad publicity, however, is only one of Thieu's problems and probably not his gravest. More serious is the fact that the military balance has in recent months been changing unfavorably for Saigon. In Military...
Region Three, which encompasses the eleven provinces surrounding Saigon, the South Vietnamese have suffered several serious setbacks, including the loss a month ago of the entire province of Phuoc Long on the Cambodian border. The same day the Communists captured Phuoc Long, they dislodged Saigon's forces from the strategic Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), which overlooks the important provincial capital of Tay Ninh, where the South Vietnamese 25th Division is garrisoned. Communist forces have launched a random shelling of the city that has driven out some 30,000 of its 350,000 residents...
...Military Region Two, which encompasses the central part of South Viet Nam, the key cities of Pleiku and Kontum are fortress outposts in an area controlled by highly mobile North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units. In the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon, where more than one-third of South Viet Nam's population lives, Communist attacks have driven government troops out of many outposts. At the same time, a blocking maneuver aimed toward Route 4 by North Vietnamese troops threatens Saigon's vital connection with the Delta...