The struggling South Vietnamese army last week won its biggest battle against the Communists since the end of the Indo-China war in 1954.
For weeks the Red guerrillas, known as the Viet Cong, had steered clear of large-scale action, choosing instead to dart out in small bands on minor missions of sabotage and murder. U.S. military advisers, rushed to South Viet Nam after the debacle in Laos, used the lull to train government troops in special new mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in...
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