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...These leaders," he said, "voiced no weariness before the task of getting on with reforms in education and health and agriculture." Yet, he noted, they must at every turn defy a "deliberately planned and coldly carried out" Viet Cong terrorist campaign...
...worshipers. One fired a Czech burp gun, instantly killing the two officiating priests and Tuong's aunt, and hitting Tuong in the shoulder. Unable to draw his pistol, Tuong ran. A second burst cut him down in mid-courtyard. As so often happens in the terrorist war, the two assassins escaped in the confusion. In angry frustration, Tuong's nephew seized a long knife, raced next door and stabbed to death the man who had taken the assassins into his house overnight...
...forced to participate intensely, not vicariously, in the public phenomenon of impersonal terror; and allowed to share in the private world of personal fantasy--where a childhood symbol such as Perry Smith's avenging parrot "flying overhead, red and green/green and tangerine" becomes a vision that enobles a headline terrorist...
...Kill at the Waist. At the beginning of 1965, the view from Hanoi's windows must have been rosy indeed. From a force of fewer than 20,000 at the end of 1961, the Viet Cong had grown to a lethally effective terrorist army of 165,000 whose supplies, orders and reinforcements flowed freely from the North. Viet Minh regulars were infiltrating at the rate of a regiment every two months. From the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula to the 17th parallel, huge swaths of the South lay under Communist sway, and with good reason: in that year...
Communist reaction to the American-Thai buildup has been predictably violent. Terrorists have murdered 24 "police agents" in recent weeks, and when Thai cops clashed with a terrorist band near Ubon early this month, they found expended cartridges of Communist Chinese and Bulgarian manufacture. Most of the Red terrorism has been concentrated in the wild northeast provinces of Thailand, which lie near Communist-controlled areas of Laos...