Three weeks ago, near Dak To in the Central Highlands of South Viet Nam, North Vietnamese troops over ran American positions, inflicting heavy casualties on the outnumbered, ambushed G.I.s. Then the North Vietnamese systematically slaughtered the Americans who lay wounded on the battlefield. It was only the latest in the continuing series of atrocities that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have made a deliberate and calculat ed part of their war tactics. With a chilling combination of care and coldbloodedness, they have assassinated pacification leaders, killed U.S. AID workers, decapitated village chiefs, abducted whole hamlets, and murdered...
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