Victories of the Sout

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ing the "pacification" plans and
namization of the war'' program of N
and agents Thieu, Ky and Kheim
South Vietnam Peoples' Liberation AM™
Forces and people have recorded victorie’||
highly strategic significance.

The South Vietnam’ People's
Armed Forces and population have dealt si
cessive, accurate and hard blows at new Woe!
and vulnerable points of the US-pup
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25 days of May 1970, the South Viet
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enemy bases or positions; put out of acti
more than 38,000 of the enemy (among thet

6,000 US and satellite troops); wiped oY
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Captured U.S. weapons being

collected.

Pentagon bookkeepers miscalcul ate :

The nazis kept a bookkeeping
account of their victims—listing
the gold in their teeth, their
hair, and everything that could
be turned into money with
methodical thoroughness, carry-
ing capitalist profiteering to its
logical conclusion.

The same tally is kept of US
imperialism’s “profiteering.”

Here are some of their figures:

Starting with 1965, the Ameri-
can air force, artillery and navy
dropped 5,172,588 tons of bombs
on North Vietnam between 1965
and 1970. During all of 1968,
1969, and for the first 5 months
of 1970, fired some 5,155,700
tons of munitions.

That’s more than 10 million
tons of explosive let loose on
Indochina — equivalent to 500
atomic bombs of the type used
against Hiroshima.

The ending of air raids against
North Vietnam at the end of
October, 1968, did not lead to a
reduction in the activities of the
US air force. In- October, 1968,

they.used 122,233tons of bombs, ¢ ‘theirs electronie computers have -

in December 127,672 tons, in
March, 1969, 130,141 tons.
Thus the policy of Vietnami-

zation and the partial with-
drawal of American troops does
not reduce the fire power used
by the United States against In-
dochina.

The war is being mechanized.
This is what mechanization of
war means: The Washington
Post announced in a very busi-
ness-like way that, from a statis-
tical “viewpoint, it requires
100,000 bullets to kill or wound
one Vietcong. Bullets cost from
5 to 10. cents each, and, there-
fore, killing a Vietcong with
small arms costs the taxpayers
from $3,000 to $10,000.

The Pentagon bookkeepers
don’t say how much it costs us-
ing a B-52 superfortress, or the

. Phantoms and Skyhawks.

Well, the bookkeepers, strate-
gists, mathematicians, psycholo-
gists and sociologists who are on
the Pentagon payroll claim tf
have figured out everything. But

not answered one question: Why
is it that even these bombings,
equal to hundreds bf Hiroshi-
fass, have failed to break the will
of the Vietnamese, Laotians and
Cambodians? Why is it that the
armed forces of the United
States and its satellites are to-
day in a more difficult position
than they were in the. summer
of 1965, when, frightened by the
bulletins from South Vietnam,
L. B. Johnson hastily began
transferring his crack troops to
Saigon?

Even in Saigon the American
imperialists, and their Saigon
lackeys, do not feel safe.

Yes, the years of war in Viet-
nam have affirmed the fact that
nobody will ever overcome a
people who has tasted freedom
and is fully resolved to defend it.

The resistance has driven the
American imperialists to a
frenzy. In retaliation for their
defeats, they resort to the mass
annihilation of old people, wo-
men and children, throw hun-

-dreds: iof '. thousands? of 1 people ~

into prisons, force innocent
people to rot in tiger pits and
invent blood-chilling methods of
torture. And, in spite of it all,
the people of Indochina are more
determined than ever.

Pentagon’s bookkeepers have
miscalculated on another front,
too. Their systematic planning
of mass annihilation did not tell
them what impact their actions
would have on the people of the
United States.

Never, in the history of that
country, has there been such a
passionate outpouring for peace.
Without representatives from
the working class, the Senate
came close to an anti-war reso-
lution.

US imperialism’s war has
also brutalized one part of the
American population, the Cal-
leys capable of shooting down
women and children on a mass
scale, capable of torture and
murder. The whole of United
States is paying a price for that
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