Wall Street Journal. reported thatIn the Vietcong haste to make the most of the monsoons. their tactics have become tougher * * * efforts to ingratiate have given way to rough stuffterrorism. assassinations and pillagein order to collar recruits and gather supplies from the local populace. Last Tuesday. Jack Langguth. of the New York Times. in a dispatch from Saigon. told the following story: Fifteen miles south of Pleiku. refugees arriving in a special forces camp told about Vietcong terrorism in the village of Plelbreng. They said that the Vietcong entered the town Saturday night and instructed the villagers to sing songs of the National Liberation Front. the political organization of the Vietcong. When the people. most of them mountaineers. refused. the Vietcong threw a grenade at them. killing 12 persons and wounding 26. -On Monday.
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