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...American strategists envisioned, the intensive bombing of the Indochinese countryside has stimulated the urbanization of the area. In the northernmost provinces of South Vietnam, however, people continue to live in the countryside, which is why the U.S. and Saigon sought earlier this year to resettle these residents in areas of the far South. Unfavorable publicity in the U.S. press forced the cancellation of relocation plans...
...regular Thursday tabulation, the U.S. command in Saigon announced last week that American casualties-five killed in action and four wounded-were at the lowest combined count since early in 1965. For months American losses in Viet Nam have been declining in an almost steady curve...
...like beginning a burglary by deliberately knocking over the garbage cans. As a formidable force of South Vietnamese Rangers, armored, infantry and artillery units assembled at a base in Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon, Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh's command post issued almost daily bulletins about what targets the ARVN force would hit across the border in Cambodia. Communist staging areas near the town of Snuol were mentioned, as were the Mimot plantation near Krek, the vast Chup plantation, the town of Suong and the enemy-infested banks of the Chhlong River...
...Saigon's first priority, however, is to get its people-especially those who swarmed into the cities in pursuit of U.S. dollars-accustomed to the idea that the days of easy money and easy goods are over. When the U.S. buildup was in progress, the regime encouraged massive imports (800,000 motorbikes came in during one two-year period) as one way of damping the inflationary effects of the massive influx of U.S. dollars. Two years ago, when the U.S. pullout began, Saigon tried to cut down the flow of goods through heavy import taxes, but the main effect...
...most of the 359,400 G.I.s who have been pulled out of Viet Nam so far have been combat troops from the boondocks, not the big spenders on the bases near the cities. Only when the still-substantial flow of Pentagon dollars is cut back to a trickle will Saigon begin to be able to tell whether Phase II will work...