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...civilian dead in II Corps total 1,100, the wounded 4,000, the new refugees 103,000. Some 12,000 houses were destroyed and another 4,000 heavily damaged. The security of the corps' road network is about the same as pre-Tet, but that is not saying much; even then, an armed convoy was needed to traverse all major roads. Sixty of the 252 R.D. teams assigned to hamlets are still out of position, unable to go back because security cannot be guaranteed them. One area abandoned: the coastal strip just north of Qui Nhon...
...overall situation in strategic III Corps, a 10,000-sq.-mi. area ringing the capital zone of Saigon, remains guardedly favorable. There is firm evidence that if the government reacts promptly enough, it may be able to recoup practically all the losses sustained at Tet...
...Before Tet, CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support) estimated that 82% of the population of 5.3 million lived in secure hamlets, some 13% in contested hamlets and only a scant 5% under hardcore Viet Cong hegemony. "We're still in a state of flux concerning recent losses or gains," says CORDS Deputy John P. Vann. "We're not sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small...
...Tet blows left the Delta stunned -disoriented, inert, and so traumatized that it could not even assess its own wounds. But now there is a stirring in hot, flat, sunbaked IV Corps, a probing of wounds, an application of first aid, and even plans for recovery...
Estimates of damage and casualties in the Delta are spottier than elsewhere, because even pre-Tet the government's control was a sometime thing. Of the 5,274 hamlets in IV Corps, 2,000 were under Saigon's rule, 2,000 under that of the Viet Cong and the rest neither quite one nor the other. But 1,300 civilians are believed dead, 3,700 wounded. Before Tet, the Delta had 14,000 refugees; now there are 170,000, the product of 19,000 houses destroyed and 5,000 heavily damaged. Road traffic is a fifth or less...