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Another Communist tactic was a concerted drive to interdict the main highways around Saigon, thus isolating the capital. They succeeded in cutting five main routes, but after often heavy fighting, ARVN counterattacks managed to reopen three of those five...
TIME correspondents, fanning out from Saigon to check on the fighting along the main highways after the ceasefire, often found themselves hugging the ground to avoid Communist shells and rifle fire. Their reports...
Marsh Clark: We drove down Highway 1 from Saigon. The sun was just coming up as we passed Long Binh Post, once the largest American military base in the world, standing virtually deserted save for the curly-tailed dogs nosing around in the discarded refuse...
Some disgusted travelers simply turned around and returned to Saigon to wait for another...
...higher figure of 70% of the population). The insurgents are a disparate coalition of Communists, nationalists, dissidents and pro-Sihanouk loyalists. Originally armed by Hanoi, the Khmer Rouge is now largely independent of the North Vietnamese. In the more than two years since Cambodia was invaded by Saigon's forces and brought into the war. the rebels have proved themselves at least an even match for the 180,000-man Cambodian army...