During weeks of hit-and-run sniping, the Viet Cong Communists ran up an impressive score. Two National Assembly Deputies were shot dead in a Jeep outside Banmethuot. A bus was dynamited. Several district chiefs were wounded. Fortnight ago, eight Vietnamese Catholic priests were kidnaped. The old pattern of isolated terror seemed to be reasserting itself, and Vietnamese morale sank steadily.
All the while, South Viet Nam's Seventh Divisionwhich smashed two Red guerrilla battalions on the Plain of the Reeds five weeks agowas laying a trap for another showdown. U.S.-trained Colonel Huynh Van...
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