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...Vietnamese air force warplanes taking off from Bien Hoa. Loaded with 500-and 750-lb. bombs, the planes headed northward on a mission to avenge the previous day's attack. Their primary target: the city of Loc Ninh, the "administrative center" of the Viet Cong, 62 miles away. Saigon insisted that its bombs hit only military targets. The Viet Cong claimed that bombs fell on Loc Ninh's marketplace and infirmary, killing 42 civilians...
Significant Extensions. Since the signing of the ceasefire, more than 50,000 Vietnamese on both sides have died in the continued fighting-more than the total number of Americans killed in the eleven years of U.S. involvement. When a newsman in Saigon asked: "Is there a cease-fire?" Lieut. Colonel Le Trung Hien, the military spokesman, replied dryly: "Our daily communiqués [of military action] answer your question...
...first Western observers thought that the Saigon government and the Communists were merely trying to improve their defenses and straighten the boundary lines of areas they controlled on the day the cease-fire went into effect. It is now apparent that both sides are violating the Paris Accords and are determined to extend their holdings significantly. Saigon's air force has been flying up to 100 sorties daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province...
...weekly news conference one hour before our talk, Sau raised the issue of the Saigon government's use of defoliants. Although he did not have precise information concerning how Saigon had obtained the chemicals, Sau asserted that the Thieu regime was using them because that regime is anti-popular and cannot exist without the use of coercion. If Thieu sprays chemicals on PRG-controlled areas, it is because he considers them to be the new Vietnam: the city of Loc Ninh is the new Saigon-- life is cheaper, the people live better. Sau insisted that the Thieu regime had been...
Congress did not cut off U.S. aid to the Thieu regime, but there is some hope that in the future it will continue to reduce his fund allocations. Yet, as the French scholar Philippe Devillers and an official on leave from the U.S. embassy in Saigon both impressed on me, the only laws that the United States respects in Vietnam are the gun and the piaster. Wars that cannot be won on the battlefield can be dragged on a minimal cost. Thieu may last for another eight years if he can stir up enough support from the right-wing chauvinists...