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•‘OUT" IS RIGHT —Sam, bobcat mascot of the U.S. 25th Divi
sion’s Ist Battalion, sth Infantry, the "Bobcats,” has made
the logical choice of a place for a nap at Cu Chi, South Viet
nam. It’s the “out” basket of S/Sgt. Edgar Jenkins, typing.
RAY CROMLEY
f A The Viet Cong Tactics—
Right Out of Mao's Book
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The Viet Cong, in their terror attacks on 45 South Viet
namese cities and towns, were following principles and using
tactics laid down in Mao Tse-tung training schools this re
porter once saw in Yenan, Red China.
If VC aims are as laid down in these Mao courses, the guer
rillas hoped to attain seven objectives:
• Strike such terror in the cities and towns that the troops
and police would resort to heavy reprisals. The VC hoped the
U.S. and Vietnamese armies would bomb, strafe and direct
artillery fire into churches and temples and into heavily
populated areas of the cities. They hoped the police would
respond with grenade and gunfire attack.
The Communists believe heavy police and military re
?risals create hatred for the police, the Americans and the
ietnamese army and win new VC converts.
This explains the many seemingly futile suicide strikes on
police stations, and city U.S. and Vietnamese government
and military installations.
It was, in fact, to attract this heavy retaliatory gunfire that
the VC holed up in temples and residential districts.
• Quickly set up kangaroo courts to try and execute certain
officials and local leaders before withdrawing as a warning to
the people that no one who co-operates with the government
or the Americans is safe from retribution.
Some American civilians report that their close Vietnamese
friends now look the other way when passing them on the
street.
• Cause fighting so widespread and of such intensity that
the government would declare martial law.
This would, Red theory goes, make a mockery of the new
constitution, the elections and the
• Cause such turmoil in the cities and suburbs that shops
would close, food deliveries decline sharply and many people
grow desperately hungry.
The aim was to set off Watts-type or Detroit-type riots in
several cities.
Once such riots developed, the Communists hoped to fan
them into open sores that would fester for weeks or months.
• By having Viet Cong pop up in many neighborhoods
simultaneously within the major cities and towns of South
Vietnam—even including drivers with the U.S. embassy itself
—the Viet Cong hoped to make the ordinary citizen uncertain
which of his friends, fellow workers or neighbors might be
VC in disguise—watching him and his movements.
• Where possible, the VC hoped to create a breakdown in
government services and make living conditions so bad
generally that many people would say any government would
be preferable to a lack of government.
• Create a widespread feeling among the people that the
Communists are on the offensive and winning, and that there
is no hope of fighting them off. This was calculated to win
adventurous youth to the guerrilla movement and create such
hopeless lethargy among other citizens the Communists
would be able to effectively build their shadow government.
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ISLAND’S FAME
Cocos Island, off the coast of
Costa Rica, is famous as the 1
repository of pirate treasure
said to be buried near its
shores. None of this buried gold
has ever been found.
OWL SIZES
Smallest of owls is the tiny
elf owl, which is hardly si x
inches long; largest is the
great gray owl, which is 30 ;
inches in length and has a
wingspread of between 54 and >
60 inches.
BILLIONS OF SUNS
Astronomers say that the '
earth’s home galaxy, slowly
wheeling its way through ■
space, has 200 billion suns. Our
earth’s sun makes a full revolu- '
tion in the galaxy every 230 ;
million years
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In Colonial history, impor
tance is attached to the Judith
Catchpole case becauhe she
was tried on a charge of mur
der before a jury of 11 women.
This is the first recorded in
stance of a jury composed en
tirely of women.
SHORT IN STATURE
The famed Mayan Indians
I are a shorter race of people
than what is considered aver
, age by American standards.
Mayan men average about 5-1
• and Maya women seldom ex
ceed five feet in height.