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Communist Gains. Heavy fighting also broke out in Military Region III, which consists of the eleven provinces surrounding Saigon. The town of Cu Chi, the rear headquarters of the 25th ARVN Division, was shelled. Communist mortar and artillery attacks in Tay Ninh province, especially around Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), drove thousands of terrified refugees into already crowded Tay Ninh City. In Phuoc Tuy province, the Communists are attempting to gain control of several rubber plantations near the town of Long Thanh. Not far from there, they have organized the 301st Regiment of the so-called People...
With good reason, some gloomy citizens in Saigon are by now convinced that the war in South Viet Nam will never end. Last week fighting between Communist and government troops reached its greatest intensity since the ineffective ceasefire, signed nearly two years ago. By week's end the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) had suffered 706 killed and 2,758 wounded; Saigon officials claim to have killed more than 3,600 of their enemies...
...increasingly feeble regional militia. Kien Tuong and Dinh Tuong provinces were particularly hard hit (see map). Communists in Kien Tuong, using a shoulder-fired missile, shot down a huge Chinook helicopter, killing all 54 government troops aboard. A major target was Highway 4, linking the Delta with Saigon...
...Saigon's forces also face serious internal problems. The regional militia has frequently proved to be unreliable. So far this year, militiamen have abandoned 40% of their 2,500 outposts in the Delta. The morale of regular ARVN troops, which has seldom been high, has recently fallen even farther, due in part to the continuing corruption within the Thieu regime and among ranking military officers (TIME, Nov. 11). Moreover, Saigon's economic squeeze-the result of the increased price of imported oil and a decrease in U.S. aid-has forced ARVN to economize on the battlefield. Many outposts...
...rapists. A person who pollutes the air another breathes is just as forceful and violent as a mugger who breaks another man's leg. Friedman maintains solid support of all civil liberties and solid opposition to all victimless crime laws. He is against the draft, military intervention, aid to Saigon, and the very existence...