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Hard Intelligence. Steele, who made headlines two months ago when he charged that the drug-addiction rate among G.I.s in Viet Nam was between 10% and 15%, refused to reveal the sources of the new accusations. "My information comes from intelligence sources in Saigon," he said. "My concern is due to the fact that this is hard intelligence, which has been developed for months, and nothing has been done." He added: "There has been a crackdown by the South Vietnamese, especially against the customs officials. But who do you think is moving this stuff? Porters? We've made some...
When Dzu flew to Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu flatly refused to see his embattled general. After 24 hours of waiting, Dzu flew back to his Military Region II headquarters, protesting that Steele had damaged "not only my honor as a general but also the honor of the Vietnamese army and the Vietnamese people...
Highly Sensitive. The Saigon government said that it was investigating charges of corruption on Dzu's part. Many case-hardened U.S. officials doubted, however, that Dzu has played as large a part in the narcotics racket as Steele claims. They noted, moreover, that his popularity as a military commander has slipped markedly since he took over Military Region II last August -which could make him expendable at a time when corruption in the Thieu government is a hot political issue...
...outposts turned over to Saigon last week was Charlie 2, a barren hilltop four miles south of the DMZ. Last May, when it was still the home of 500 G.I.s, a single Communist rocket slammed into one overcrowded bunker at Charlie 2, killing 30 and wounding 32 inside...
Four years later, South Viet Nam's northern borders are still about as leakproof as Saigon customs. Since mid-March, when the Laotian incursion ended in muffled ignominy, 30,000 North Vietnamese troops have slipped into South Viet Nam's Military Region I, raising NVA troop strength in the five northern provinces to 52,000 troops (plus 24,000 Viet Cong guerrillas). Despite the presence of 180,000 South Vietnamese troops and the ready availability of U.S. airpower, the Communists seem capable of inflicting embarrassing losses in Quang Tri and Thua Thien, the two provinces just south...