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extracted text: Beverly Deepe

“We're losing strategically in Southeast Asia," the gloomy

@ipluat grosned, "snd welze losing tactically in South Viet Men."

During: the current rped rainy season, which continues until
October, high-ranking Vietnamese officers (informatively only—prime minister
General Nguyen Khanh) conceded the pro-Compunist guerrillas have the capability—
and the intentions—of overriding wnveubinee Ef the 43 provincial capitals
in the country. And they have the capability of regimental—controlled
operations, a definite increase in the scope of the war,x in which their
previous largest operating unit was a battalion,

Reliable sources indicate that the pro-Communist guerrillas
are now moving battalions from the lower Mekong Dleta Delite—which they now believe
they dominate—to sevem crucial provinces’ forming an are south of Saigon. (See
enclosed map.)

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